Invaluable Lessons from My Father

with Heather O’Neill

Hosted by CBC’s Joanne Chianello

In Person Non-Fict

Tuesday

May , 2018

8:30pm

Eastern

Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks St. • Ottawa

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Heather O’Neill is just getting better and better.

The Globe and Mail

With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends—ex-bank robbers and homeless men—taught her that everything she did was important, a belief that she has carried through her life.

Heather O’Neill’s intimate recollections make Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father the perfect companion to her widely praised debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals.

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The Authors

Heather O'Neill

Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. When We Lost Our Heads was a #1 national bestseller and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Her works include The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and CBC's Canada Reads, as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Capital of Dreams, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC's Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, O'Neill lives there today.