Heather O'Neill

Event: What Women Write

Bio: Heather O'Neill is the author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, which was a finalist for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her first novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, won CBC's Canada Reads and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. It was also a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Orange Prize. O'Neill is a regular contributor to CBC Books, CBC Radio, This American Life, The New York Times Magazine, The Gazette, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail. She was born in Montreal, where she currently lives.

Book: Daydreams of Angels, Harper Collins

Synopsis: Heather O'Neill's unforgettable novels The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Lullabies for Little Criminals, captured readers with the vulnerability and charm of her characters and the irreverent descriptions of their lives on Montreal's St. Laurent Boulevard. In Daydreams of Angels, O'Neill's distinctive voice and style shine in a collection of stories that evoke sorrow, laughter, and heartbreak.