The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (Hardcover)

from LynnB

Heather O'Neill has evoked life in working-class Montreal so well in this novel. As Nouschka Tremblay comes of age and tries to decide what path her life should take, Quebec is facing a similar question in the upcoming referendum on separation. Nouschka is extremely close to her twin brother (Nic...

from bucketofrhymes

Heather O'Neill's writing is the perfect balance of disturbing, unsettling, beautiful, and magical.

from Smits

well written quirky book with paragraphs sometimes hard to decipher their meaning told with such an edgy voice. I grew up in Mtl but not like these twins did on the Blvd Saint- Laurent looking out for each other and growing up alone in separatist Quebec with an absent father who is a cultural ico...

from Romonko

Such a surprising story! At the beginning it looked like it would be a coming-of-age story about a pair of misfit twins who appear to be running of the rails and running circles around their care-giver grandfather. Nicolas and Noushka Tremblay appear to be 19 year-old out-of-control teenagers whe...

from RidgewayGirl

Heather O'Neill wrote the charming and gritty Lullabies for Little Criminals and so I was excited to see that she'd written another book, this one called The Girl Who Was Saturday Night. Set in the same hardscrabble, working class Montreal, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is Nouschka Tremblay, wh...