Girl Who Was Saturday Night
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'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times
'Entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream' Guardian
The second novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Longlisted for the Baileys Prize 2015
At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken.
At six, she's the child star daughter of Quebec's most famous musician.
At sixteen, she's a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother.
At nineteen, she's the Beauty Queen of Boulevard Saint-Laurent.
At twenty, she's back in night school. And falling for an ex-convict.
And it's all being filmed by a documentary crew.
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.