The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

Heather O'Neill

From Shelf: The 2015 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Fiction Prize - a story of a girl growing up in bohemian Quebec, striving for liberty

'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times'Entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream' GuardianThe second novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts HotelLonglisted for the Baileys Prize 2015At 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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