The Februarybook selection for the next gathering of the Glen Morris Book Club is Learned by Heart by Emma Donahue.
Goodreads.com shares this synopsis:
"In 1805, fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a school girl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished to this unfamiliar country as a little girl. When she first stepped off the King George in Kent, Eliza was accompanied by her older sister, Jane, but now she boards alone at the Manor, with no one left to claim her. She spends her days avoiding the attention of her fellow pupils until, one day, a fearless and charismatic new student arrives at the school. The two girls are immediately thrown together and soon Eliza’s life is turned inside out by this strange and curious young woman.
Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking story of the tangled lives of two women whose intense, and unlikely, relationship will change them for ever.
GM Book Club will meet Monday, February 3 at 2:30pm in the Robson Community Room at Glen Morris United Church. All are welcome to be a part of this interesting and always fun group and you may contact Lyanne Lynch for more information at lynch2003@rogers.com or 519-622-5487.
Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Emma's book The Pull of the Stars has been chosen for this years' s One Book One Brant.
The Glen Morris Book Club will meet Monday, March 10, 2:30pm in the Robson Room at Glen Morris United Church. If you are interested in being part of this fun and thought-provoking group, contact Lyanne Lynch at lynch2003@rogers.com.