Lullabies for Little Criminals

O’Neill’s vivid prose owes a debt to Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend… Baby’s precocious introspection feels pitch perfect… Tear-jerkingly effective - Publishers’ WeeklyA remarkable novel that could turn out to be huge… the very rich descriptions of a tumultuous young life and emotional reaction to each new situation add up to a cracking good read - Publishing New…dreamy prose…Baby’s unique voice and the glimmer of hope provided by her intelligence and imaginative spirit live on in the mind long after you have closed the book - Waterstones Books QuarterlyFrom feisty little Scout of To Kill a Mockingbird to Sissy Spacek’s blank-eyed Holly in the film Badlands, Heather O’Neill draws on the annals of knowing child narrators to shape Baby’s shabby, scrappy scrabble from broken home to detention centre to pimp’s lap and back again. Scabrous humour and brutal insight fairly jolt each episode into life - The Observer

Heather O’Neill is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and essayist. Lullabies for Little Criminals, her debut novel, was published in 2007 to international critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, The Girl who was Saturday Night, was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Giller Prize, as was her collection of short stories, Daydreams of Angels. Her third novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel was longlisted for the Baileys prize. Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill lives there today with her daughter.

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