***"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 readers 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.