When We Lost Our Heads

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“A corrosive friendship between two moving women has profound implications in this Victorian epic. In 1873, Montreal sugar factory heiress Marie Antoine and her intelligent, macabre friend Sadie Arnett accidentally kill Marie’s maid Agatha during a pretend duel. Sadie’s politically ambitious family then ships her off to a repressive school in England, where she discovers her calling in writing pornographic stories.

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