The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Broché)

This is a love story, but not one you'd expect. It is a fairytale with a wicked heart. Rose and Pierrot were born in the most unfashionable of gutters. Raised in Montreal's orphanage, they're flung into the great Depression with little more than love and a high-kicking determination to make something of their lives. By turns burlesque, beautiful, feminist and noir, Heather O'Neill's dazzling circus of a novel dances through an underworld where tragedy flirts with magic, and whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss.