''Joyful, funny and vividly alive'' Emily St John Mandel
''The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better . . . I began underlining truths I had hungered for'' Miranda July
''Makes me think of comets and live wires . . . raises goosebumps'' Helen Oyeyemi
''A fairytale laced with gunpowder'' Kelly Link
The Lonely Hearts Hotel 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.
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.
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