Heather O'Neill on finding magic in dark places.Heather O'Neill on cat dialogue, laundry room phobias, and other people's brains.100 writers in Canada you need to know now.Her books include the novels Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, the short story collection Daydreams of Angelsand the nonfiction book Wisdom in Nonsense. She the first back-to-back finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: The Girl Who Was Saturday Night was a finalist in 2014 and Daydreams of Angels was a finalist in 2015. Heather O'Neill is a writer from Montreal. The Lonely Hearts Hotel was on the Canada Reads 2021 longlist.
After Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls hit the stage and the alleys, the underworld will never look the same. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes - after years of searching and desperate poverty - the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Vicious, absurd and perverse, Montreal in the 1920s is no place for song and dance. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both escape into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. As they travel around the city performing for the rich, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Before long, their true talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910.
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