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The Lonely Hearts Hotel Author: Heather O'Neill

ISBN: 9781849163361 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 336 Published: 28 February 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.4 x 2.9 Description: A novel about childhood damage and the redemptive power of art from an author twice listed for the Women's Prize and the Giller Prize.

Two children were born in the Montreal winter of 1914: Pierrot of a twelve-year-old mother named Ignorance; Rose, rescued from a snowdrift. They were fated to meet in the Catholic orphanage. There, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of talking bears, of circus tricks and a secret language; shielding the spark of their curiosity from the terrorism of those meant to protect them. But even the most extraordinary of spirits can be hurt - especially when it comes disguised as love - and Rose and Pierrot are torn 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. Rose has the means, Pierrot the talent; but their fame will come at a cost, for in the roaring twenties little that is pure re...

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