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Heather O'Neill

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Heather O'Neill was born in Montreal and attended McGill University.

She published her debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, in 2006. The novel won the Canada Reads competition (2007) and was awarded the Hugh Maclennan Award (2007). It was nominated for eight other awards included the Orange Prize, the Governor General's Award and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. It was an international bestseller.

Her books The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (2014) and Daydreams of Angels (2015) were both shortlisted for the Giller Prize.

Her third novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel will be published in February 2017.

Her credits also include a screenplay, a book of poetry, and contributions to The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, The Globe and Mai
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel

I am pleased to announce that my new novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel has received STARRED reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist and Library Journal!!

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Lullabies for Little Criminals

4.05 avg rating — 30,932 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel

3.79 avg rating — 21,725 ratings — published 2017 — 40 editions
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When We Lost Our Heads

3.93 avg rating — 17,700 ratings — published 2022 — 16 editions
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The Girl Who Was Saturday N...

3.82 avg rating — 6,467 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions
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The Capital of Dreams

3.60 avg rating — 2,488 ratings — published 2024 — 12 editions
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Daydreams of Angels

3.96 avg rating — 1,623 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Valentine in Montreal

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Tu redeviendras poussière

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And They Danced by the Ligh...

4.06 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.”
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

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