Helen Humphreys è un'acclamata autrice la cui opera spazia tra poesia, romanzi e saggistica creativa. La sua prosa approfondisce le complessità delle relazioni umane e le vite interiori dei personaggi con una profonda intuizione psicologica. Humphreys è nota per il suo uso preciso del linguaggio e la sua capacità di creare atmosfere suggestive che attraggono profondamente i lettori nelle sue narrazioni. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una voce distintiva e un'esplorazione unica dell'esperienza umana.
Explores the search for identity and meaning, and captures the tension between the yearnings and the sexuality of the Victorian age. Annie arrives at a wealthy house to work as a maid. Used to the labour of servitude, she soon finds herself drawn into a world where dreams are possible.
And A Dog called Fig is a study of how animals help writers deal with the challenges of the creative process, insterspersing the author's own experience with stories of other famous writers and their dogs
In Field Study, award-winning author Helen Humphreys returns to her brilliant illustrated meditations, this time to delve into the lost world of herbarium collections to examine where and how we look to find the solace of nature in a declining natural world.
A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn't talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard--an escape from school, bullies and a hard father. So his shock is absolute when he witnesses Bill commit a sudden violent act and loses him to prison. Fifteen years on, as a newly graduated doctor of psychiatry, Leonard arrives at the Weyburn Mental Hospital, both excited and intimidated by the massive institution known for its experimental LSD trials. To Leonard's great surprise, at the Weyburn he is reunited with Bill and soon becomes fixated on discovering what happened on that fateful day in 1947. Based on a true story, this page-turning novel from a master stylist examines the frailty and resilience of the human mind.
Das todesmutige Abenteuer von zwei jungen Fliegerinnen zu der Zeit, als die Fliegerei noch jung war, und die anrührend zarte Geschichte einer Beziehung, spannend und zugleich sensibel dargestellt in einem packenden Roman, der sich auf tatsächliche Begebenheiten stützt und das Kanada der frühen 30er Jahre zum Schauplatz hat.
