Heather O’Neill Books In Order
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Lullabies for Little Criminals | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lonely Hearts Hotel | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When We Lost Our Heads | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Capital of Dreams | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Daydreams of Angels | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Heather O’Neill is a published Canadian novelist. She is also a screenwriter, a poet, short story author, and a journalist. She wrote the screenplay for the 2000 movie St. Jude. Her short story The End of Pinky was adapted into a 2013 animated short.
O’Neill was born in Montreal. Even though she was born up north, she spent a great deal of her childhood growing up in the States in the south. She went to McGill University. Heather currently resides in Montreal once more along with Jonathan Goldstein, her partner.
Heather’s first novel was released in 2006. It was entered into the competition Canada Readers in 2007 and won. It would go on to be nominated for several other awards, winning some, and sold many copies, becoming a best seller around the globe.
Heather O’Neill has come out with several other novels, some of which made the Giller Prize’s shortlist. She has composed work in many other formats, including a poetry collection, screenplay, and short stories that have made into many publications, including The Globe, Elle Magazine, This American Life, and more.
Lullabies for Little Criminals is the first fictional novel from author Heather O’Neill. This debut is a dazzling display of power and prescience, with a story that is both understated and effective. It is the tale about a young woman that has been living on the street. She has the wits and strength that she needs to survive and with a bit of luck might make it through a tough time in her life.
In this book, readers get to meet the main character of Baby for the first time. Baby is a young teenager at just thirteen years old. She is at a unique time in her life because she was recently just a child pretty much and now she is somewhere between not quite a girl and not yet totally a woman. It’s that awkward time of life where one phase of your life is over and another is sort of just beginning.
Baby is young enough still that she has her dolls still brought around with her in her vinyl suitcase, not quite ready to abandon them. She still needs the comforts of childhood, especially with how much of the real world she has been exposed to. There are many urban cruelties that she has experienced and life is tough for her without a mother.
Without her mother in her life, she resides with Jules. He’s technically her father, but he doesn’t act much like one. He makes sure that his addiction to heroin is always taken care of and that receives most of his attention, not his daughter. Baby is essentially looking after herself and stuck in an unhealthy environment.
Baby does have one thing on her side, though, and that is her ability to imagine things and tell stories. She is able to come up with some of the most interesting and elaborate stories ever. She also is able to have an appreciation for the good things in life and is able to cherish even the smallest moments of happiness that she is able to come across.
Her beauty has started to blossom and take off as well, bringing a whole new set of challenges. Baby is starting to catch the eye of a local man in the area. He is a pimp that is dangerous and charismatic as well, which makes him even more dangerous. He has a whole line up of girls that are sad but devoted to him.
This is a risky situation and even her father, who is normally totally out of it, sees the threat in it. Then an escape happens that is wrapped up in the mask of betrayal. Baby is totally on the verge of having her spirit broken. She has felt alone for so much of her life, but will the pressure that is on her show her the way to have a better life?
Baby might just be about to find out that when it comes to salvation, sometimes the power rests with you and is in your control alone. Can Baby summon the inner strength and find a better life for herself? Read this book from Heather O’Neill for yourself to find out!
If you loved the debut novel from Heather O’Neill, then check out her exciting second work, titled The Girl Who Was Saturday Night!
This author already wowed readers and reviewers with the release of her premiere fictional novel. Now she is back for more with another tale set in the enchanting city of Montreal. It may be grubby in areas, but it has a certain type of magic to it if you know it well.
This is a profound yet light story that concerns the themes of fame’s vices and what family ties can sometimes involve. Nicholas and his twin Nouschka Tremblay are just 19 years old. They do not have any responsibilities or prospects, but they do share one thing in common. That would be the fact that they are famous.
Their father is really the one that is currently causing them all of this attention. He was a French-Canadian that had a genius way of looking at things. However, he currently is stuck in prison. It is up to the twins to find their way in the world.
Back when they were little, the twins were made to be part of the grand plans of their father. He wanted to secure the province and the two children were the way to help him to do that. They were put on talk shows and eventually their father dumped the children with their grandfather, disappearing to party and pursue his own pleasures.
Etienne is now far from that time and totally washed up. The twins are nearly adult and are now making their own messes. Whatever they do ends up hitting the tabloid front pages. They gained fame while they were young, but now they want to leave all of that behind.
For Nouschka, this may mean leaving behind her brother if she is to avoid being affected by his decisions. Can she go ahead and forge a new life for herself? Read this book to find out!
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