The Lonely Hearts Hotel Av Heather O'Neill

<p><b>''Joyful, funny and vividly alive'' Emily St John Mandel</b><br><b>''<i>The Lonely Hearts Hotel </i>sucked me right in and only got better and better . . . I began underlining truths I had hungered for'' Miranda July</b><br><b>''Makes me think of comets and live wires . . . raises goosebumps'' Helen Oyeyemi</b><br><b>''A fairytale laced with gunpowder'' Kelly Link</b><br><br><i>The Lonely Hearts Hotel</i> is a love story with a difference. Set throughout the roaring twenties, it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks and child prodigies, radical chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians and brooding clowns, set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. <br><br>It is the tale of two dreamers, abandoned in an orphanage where they were fated to meet. Here, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of their own, shielding the spark of their curiosity from those whose jealousy will eventually tear them apart.<br><br> When t