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An Evening with Heather O'Neill (Discussion & Signing)

Monday Feb 13 2017 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium
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Winnipeg launch of The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel (HarperCollins Canada) featuring a reading, a conversation hosted by Joanne Kelly, and a book signing. Co-presented by the Winnipeg International Writers Festival as part of our collaborative Winter Literary Series.

Set in Montreal and New York between the wars, The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a spellbinding story about two orphans whose unusual magnetism and talent allow them to imagine a sensational future, from the bestselling, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted author.

Heather O’Neill is a Canadian novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter and essayist. Lullabies for Little Criminals, her debut novel, was published in 2006 to international critical acclaim and won Canada Reads. It was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has since published the novel The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and the short story collection Daydreams of Angels, both of which were shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in consecutive years. The collection was also shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill lives there today with her daughter.

Joanne KellyHost Joanne Kelly is a broadcast journalism instructor. She runs a book club at McNally Robinson and talks books every second Sunday on CBC Radio.

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