Helen Humphreys se ve své rozsáhlé tvorbě pohybuje mezi poezií, romány a tvůrčí literární publicistikou. Její próza často zkoumá složité vztahy a vnitřní světy postav s pronikavou psychologickou hloubkou. Humphreys se vyznačuje precizním jazykem a schopností vytvářet sugestivní atmosféry, které čtenáře vtáhnou do vyprávění. Její díla se vyznačují originálním pohledem na lidskou zkušenost a silným vypravěčským hlasem.
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.
