Episode 34: Heather O'Neill

In this episode, Jason sits down with writer extraordinaire Heather O’Neill for a conversation about her latest novel WHEN WE LOST OUR HEADS. They discuss Victorian era gender roles, fashion as symbolism, the complexity of female friendship, and more.

Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and CBC's Canada Reads. Her previous work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, has been 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 with her daughter.

You can order WHEN WE LOST OUR HEADS here.

You can find Heather on Twitter @lethal_heroine and on Instagram @oneillreads.

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