
When We Lost Our Heads
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Jeanna Phillips
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By:
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Heather O'Neill
“Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive.”
Charismatic Marie Antoine is the daughter of the richest man in 19th century Montreal. She has everything she wants, except for a best friend - until clever, scheming Sadie Arnett moves to the neighborhood. Immediately united by their passion and intensity, Marie and Sadie attract and repel each other in ways that thrill them both. Their games soon become tinged with risk, even violence. Forced to separate by the adults around them, they spend years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity. And when a singular event brings them back together, the dizzying effects will upend the city.
Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking listeners firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal’s wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender, sex, desire, class, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can’t let someone go.
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Critic reviews
"This novel has everything...opulence, whimsy, sugar barons, brothels, factories, revolution, and an intense friendship that forces both participants to straddle darkness and light while clinging to one another for dear life." —Literary Hub
"A twisted, perverse story that's difficult to put down...you'll be desperate to know what [the characters] do next." —Buzzfeed
"Delightful...The plot satisfies with twists and turns to the end, but it’s the audaciousness of spirit emboldening most of [O'Neill's] female characters that makes this novel shine." —New York Journal of Books
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I had 17 minutes left. And I did not want to finish this book, because I did not want this story to be over. Yet, I couldn't help myself more than one day to sit and listen to how this was tied together.
20/10 would recommend
Thank you for sharing these, words, ideas, and these people into my life. I am forever grateful for storytellers.
I could not put this book down
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Fizzled out
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The narrator was problematic for me.
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one of my all time favs
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Hard Pass
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How NOT to write similes and metaphors
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When We Lost Our Heads started out enjoyable but O’Neil fell too much in love with her whimsical ideas. Just sell the book as a compendium of short stories then. At some point the book stopped being the story.
Heather, get an editor!
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Horrible
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