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The Lonely Hearts Hotel: the Bailey''s Prize longlisted novel

English

By (author): Heather O'Neill

'Joyful, funny and vividly alive' Emily St John Mandel
'The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better . . . I began underlining truths I had hungered for' Miranda July
'Makes me think of comets and live wires . . . raises goosebumps' Helen Oyeyemi
'A fairytale laced with gunpowder' Kelly Link

The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss.

It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned in an orphanage where they were fated to meet. Here, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of their own, shielding the spark of their curiosity from those whose jealousy will eventually tear them apart.

When they meet again, each will have changed, having struggled through the Depression, through what they have done to fill the absence of the other. But their childhood vision remains - a dream to storm the world, a spectacle, an extravaganza that will lift them out of the gutter and onto a glittering stage.

Heather O'Neill's pyrotechnical imagination and language are like no other. In this she has crafted a dazzling circus of a novel that takes us from the underbellies of war-time Montreal and Prohibition New York, to a theatre of magic where anything is possible - where an orphan girl can rule the world, and a ruined innocence can be redeemed.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781849163378

About Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill is a novelist poet short-story writer screenwriter and essayist. Lullabies for Little Criminals her debut novel was published in 2007 to international critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel The Girl who was Saturday Night was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Giller Prize as was her collection of short stories Daydreams of Angels. Her third novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel was longlisted for the Baileys prize. Born and raised in Montreal O'Neill lives there today with her daughter.

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