Shaena Lambert speaking with Heather O'Neill on stage at the Waterfront Theatre as part of Vancouver Writers Fest

Talking about the genesis of her latest novel, The Capital of Dreams, powerful mothers, defiant daughters, the creation of artistic selves, and how O’Neill’s own childhood on the streets of Montreal influences her fiction… “women never liked being mothers,” the daughter in The Capital of Dreams muses, “they only liked the idea of motherhood beforehand.”