When We Lost Our Heads: Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill and Deandra Lalonde

When We Lost Our Heads: Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill and Deandra Lalonde

7:00pm

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

You won’t want to miss award-winning Canadian novelist Heather O’Neill introducing her new book, When We Lost Our Heads. Dive into 19th century Montreal with the charismatic Marie Antoine and scheming Sadie Arnett. O’Neill brings to life a vivid world of repressive finishing schools, brothels and the opulent lives of Montreal’s wealthy. When We Lost Our Heads explores dynamics of class, gender, desire and femininity. The experience is a masterful mix of historical fiction and social commentary.

Interviewer: Deandra Lalonde

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 27 at 7pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

You won’t want to miss award-winning Canadian novelist Heather O’Neill introducing her new book, When We Lost Our Heads. Dive into 19th century Montreal with the charismatic Marie Antoine and scheming Sadie Arnett. O’Neill brings to life a vivid world of repressive finishing schools, brothels and the opulent lives of Montreal’s wealthy. When We Lost Our Heads explores dynamics of class, gender, desire and femininity. The experience is a masterful mix of historical fiction and social commentary.

Interviewer: Deandra Lalonde

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 27 at 7pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Featured Authors

Heather O’Neill
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent bestselling 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.

Read more about Heather O'Neill

Deandra Lalonde
Deandra Lalonde is an international bookseller who has sold books across the world, all from her home in Canada. She is currently the Content Sales Lead for North America at Rakuten Kobo, where she merchandises the eBook storefront. Using her knowledge of the ever-expanding book market, her focus is on making sure readers see the most relevant, interesting content that helps continue their love of reading.

Read more about Deandra Lalonde

7:00pm

Tuesday, September 27

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