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|title=The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
|sort=Girl Who Was Saturday Night, The
|publisher=Quercus
|date=May 2014
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849163324</amazonuk>
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|summary=Set to the backdrop of the separatist movement in Quebec, Nouschka and her twin brother Nicolas live and love in tandem. Nouschka upsets the fragile equilibrium between them when she marries another man, because they can only rely on each other.
|cover=1849163324
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|aznus=B00HVBJZKW
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'''Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2015'''
 
The time: the 1995; the place: Quebec. The Tremblay family have espoused the cause of Quebeçois separation from English-speaking Canada for many years. Etienne Tremblay has been a prominent, political folk singer throughout the childhood of Nouschka, his daughter, and her identical twin brother, Nicolas. The young children themselves appeared on stage frequently and have been brought up much in the public eye. Their father is almost always absent from their life as he feeds his selfishness on public adoration. Their mother only existed for them as a name in a hit song about a one night stand. They were cared for by Loulou, a loving grandfather lacking any influence over their behaviour.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending this book, which I’ll remember for a long time.
If you enjoyed this book, you may also like the equally perceptive [[We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo]]. [[The Life of a Banana by P P Wong]] was also longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for fiction 2015.
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