![]() Rose and Pierrot first meet in an orphanage run by nuns where they form an instant connection. Reading that back it sounds like this is a depressing novel filled full of gloom, and, although it has its very dark moments there is so much joy and love contained within it that it bursts from every page. Telling the story of Montreal orphans Rose and Pierrot in the 1920s we are taken on a dazzling (and sometimes harrowing) journey from their difficult start in life, to their even more difficult adulthood through extreme poverty during The Great Depression. ![]() I’m not entirely sure where to start reviewing The Lonely Hearts Hotel a novel which opens with an extreme act of cruelty, explores poverty, neglect and drug abuse and yet does so in prose which is both lyrical and beautiful. ![]()
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