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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
Heather O'Neill
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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.
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Praise for The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
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'An exuberantly written coming-of-age story . . . Flashbulb-bright and memorable . . . Nicolasand Nouschka are the beautiful, frozen, fetishised symbols of separatist Quebec. As they try towrench themselves into being, their story is as entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream' - Guardian'Delightfully bizarre . . .The author stuns with the vivid descriptions and metaphors that arestudded throughout the book' - Kirkus'O'Neill's voice is singular, brave, magical, and bursting with stark beauty' - Lisa Moore, author of February
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