The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

by Heather O'Neill

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Pub Date May 01 2014 | Archive Date May 07 2014

Quercus Books | Quercus

Description

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.

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...

Advance Praise

'Heather O'Neill does it again! The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is full of quaking love and true sadness, family rackets, heart attacks, feral cats of all sorts, risky trysts, and reeling abandon. O'Neill's voice is singular, brave, magical, and bursting with stark beauty.' Lisa Moore

'No one's depiction of the shady side of life is as luminous – or as heart-wrenching – as Heather O'Neill's'. Nancy Huston

Marketing Plan

A knock-out story of a girl growing up in bohemian Quebec, striving for liberty; from the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Lullabies for Little Criminals.