Invaluable Lessons from My Father
with Heather O’Neill
Hosted by CBC’s Joanne Chianello
Heather O’Neill is just getting better and better.
With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends—ex-bank robbers and homeless men—taught her that everything she did was important, a belief that she has carried through her life.
Heather O’Neill’s intimate recollections make Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father the perfect companion to her widely praised debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals.
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