A l'été 1876, la ville de San Francisco suffoque sous une chaleur accablante. Dans un saloon, en lisière d'une voie ferrée, un coup de feu retentit. Blanche Beunon échappe de justesse à la mort qui n'épargne pas son amie Jenny Bonnet, fauchée sur le coup. Inconsolable, Blanche, une danseuse de burlesque française, met tout en oeuvre pour conduire le meurtrier de Jenny devant la justice. Les événements qu'elle s'efforce de recomposer impliquent tout un monde d'indigents au désespoir, de souteneurs, d'enfants perdus... 
Peu à peu, elle découvre les secrets de Jenny. Emma Donoghue livre une envoûtante histoire de femmes bataillant pour s'affranchir du monde sans foi ni loi de la grande ville de l'Ouest.

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'A rich and spellbinding 19th-century story of forbidden love' - Independent'Donoghue evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching.' - The GuardianThe heartbreaking story of the love of two women - Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine - from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. In 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-old girls first meet. Eliza Raine, the orphan daughter of an Indian mother, keeps herself apart from the other girls, tired of being picked out for being different. Anne Lister, a gifted troublemaker, is determined to conquer the world, refusing to bow to society's expectations of what a woman can do. As they fall in love, the connection they forge will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Full of passion and heartbreak, evocative and wholly unique, Learned by Heart is the beautiful and moving new historical novel from acclaimed author Emma Donoghue. Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize

Learned By Heart

''An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel''  The Times     The  Sunday Times  bestseller from the acclaimed author of  The Wonder  and  Room        The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .       Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia''s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.   In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other''s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.   In  The Pull of the Stars , Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.      Guardian ''s ''Brilliant Books to Transport You This Summer''     Cosmopolitan ''s ''Best Books to Read This Summer''     Stylist ''s ''Best Summer Reads''

THE PULL OF THE STARS

En pleine pandémie de grippe espagnole, l'ancien monde est en train de s'effondrer. A la maternité, des femmes luttent pour qu'un autre voie le jour. 1918. Trois jours à Dublin, ravagé par la guerre et une terrible épidémie. Trois jours aux côtés de Julia Power, infirmière dans un service réservé aux femmes enceintes touchées par la maladie. Partout, la confusion règne, et le gouvernement semble impuissant à protéger sa population. A l'aube de ses 30 ans, alors qu'à l'hôpital on manque de tout, Julia se retrouve seule pour gérer ses patientes en quarantaine. Elle ne dispose que de l'aide d'une jeune orpheline bénévole, Bridie Sweeney, et des rares mais précieux conseils du Dr Kathleen Lynn - membre du Sinn Féin recherchée par la police. Dans une salle exiguë où les âmes comme les corps sont mis à nu, toutes les trois s'acharnent dans leur défi à la mort, tandis que leurs patientes tentent de conserver les forces nécessaires pour donner la vie. Un huis clos intense et fiévreux dont Julia sortira transformée, ébranlée dans ses certitudes et ses repères.

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B>A major film starring Brie Larson./b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize./b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Orange Prize./b>br>b>/b>br>b>With an introduction by John Boyne./b>Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra.Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on the screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits there is a world outside.Devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a luminous portrait of a boundless maternal love. It has sold more than two million copies, was a number one bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Few books have reached modern classic status so swiftly.

ROOM

From Emma Donoghue, the national bestselling author of Room, Slammerkin is "[a] colorful romp of a novel" (The New York Times Book Review) following one woman's journey of self-discovery and survival at the dawn of the industrial revolution in eighteenth century England. Slammerkin: A loose gown; a loose woman. Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations. But Mary has known freedom, and having never known love, it is freedom that motivates her. Mary asks herself if the prostitute who hires out her body is more or less free than the "honest woman" locked into marriage, or the servant who runs a household not her own? And is either as free as a man? Ultimately, Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets: Never give up your liberty. Clothes make the woman. Clothes are the greatest lie ever told.

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B>A major film starring Brie Larson, /b>b>winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress BAFTA/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,/b>b> the Orange Prize and a Richard and Judy Book Club selection./b>Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

A l'ete 1876, la ville de San Francisco suffoquesous une chaleur accablante. Dans le saloon desMcNamara, en lisiere d'une voie ferree, un coupde feu retentit dans la nuit. Blanche Beunonechappe de justesse a la mort qui n'epargne passon amie Jenny. Inconsolable, Blanche va toutmettre en oeuvre pour confondre le meurtrier deJenny et le conduire devant la justice. Leur histoire est a l'image de la ville, bruyanteet crasseuse, peuplee de femmes au verbe haut, d'hommes jaloux et de chansons des rues. Leuramitie est plus qu'improbable tant elles sontopposees: Jenny est d'un drole de calibre, unechasseuse de grenouilles qui aime defier la loi enarborant des pantalons et un colt. Danseuse deburlesque aguerrie, Blanche prend la vie commeelle vient au risque de passer a cote d'elle-memeet de son enfant, pour le plaisir de son homme etde ses michetons. Leur rencontre accidentelle vachanger le cours de leur destin... Une envoutantehistoire de femmes bataillant pour s'affranchirdans le monde sans foi ni loi de la grande villede l'Ouest."

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