{"product_id":"9781443451574","title":"When We Lost Our Heads : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWhen We Lost Our Heads\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Heather O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lonely Hearts Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e, a spellbinding story about two young women whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the course of history \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At age twelve, with her pile of blond curls and unparalleled sense of whimsy, she’s the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, the affluent strip of nineteenth-century Montreal where powerful families live. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly and brilliant, moves to the neighbourhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie and Sadie are immediately inseparable. United by their passion and intensity, they attract and repel each other in ways that set them both on fire. Marie, with her bubbly charm, sees all the pleasure of the world, whereas Sadie’s obsession with darkness is all-consuming. Soon, their childlike games take on the thrill of danger and then become deadly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForced to separate, the girls spend their teenage years engaging in acts of alternating innocence and depravity, until a singular event unites them once more, with devastating effects. After Marie inherits her father’s sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city’s gritty underworld, the working class begins to foment a revolution. Each woman will play an unexpected role in the events that upend their city—the only question is whether they will find each other once more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the beloved Giller Prize-shortlisted author who writes “like a sort of demented angel with an uncanny knack for metaphor” (\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eWhen We Lost Our Heads\u003c\/em\u003e is a page-turning novel that explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying strength of the human heart when it can’t let someone go. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“I am struggling to say how much I loved \u003cem\u003eWhen We Lost Our Heads\u003c\/em\u003e. It is full of extraordinary characters and extraordinary settings – both magnificent and squalid. It is a beautiful, alarming, outraged, outrageous, dancing, laughing, shrieking, bellowing, howling, gobbling piece of wonder. What a joy!”\u003cbr\u003e“A dazzling, delicious dream. This enchanting book about the fraught lives of women was penned with equal parts arsenic-laced icing and blood. There are marvels and dark delights on every page as O’Neill masterfully unfurls the lifelong love affair of Sadie and Marie, whose tale is illuminated by the triumphs of female desire over the crushing designs of men. The spell this novel casts is irresistible. Heather O’Neill is a wonder.”\u003cbr\u003e\"With irreverence and charm, O’Neill takes us into the vivid worlds of Sadie and Marie, unlikely friends who find themselves in the thrall of shared dark passions, threatening to destroy all they have come to know. \u003cem\u003eWhen We Lost Our Heads\u003c\/em\u003e is a lovely, uncanny take on the historical novel, told with O’Neill’s trademark wit and empathy for human foibles.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781443451574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":41143785193678,"sku":"9781443451574","price":25.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781443451574.jpg?v=1650868923","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781443451574","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}