Pierrot and Rose were both abandoned as infants and grew up in an orphanage deprived of any love or affection. Despite this, they both keep their fantastical minds and their love for the ordinary and wonderful. This book follows them as they grow up, fall in love, are ripped apart and finally find each other again.

This book, oh my lord. It's so beautiful and heart-wrenching and wanted me to stamp on it and hug it at the same time. The writing in this is just BEAUTIFUL, even though some passages were rather crude in nature. I really wanted to just drink the words in - just the way they were crafted onto the page gave me everything I wanted for and from the characters while still leaving me wanting more.

I was definitely not expecting how sexual this book was going to be - literally from the very first page but I think it worked in favor for the story in the end. It gave it a grittiness that left all the rest of eccentric parts whole. It balanced it out nicely.

I left this just craving more and I'm definitely picking up Heather O' Neill's other books because her writing is everything I've been looking for.