
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
HELEN HUMPHREYS is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. She has also been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and CBC's Canada Reads. Her most recent work includes the novel Rabbit Foot Bill and the memoir And a Dog Called Fig. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Helen Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.
"A finely rendered story about people trying to find inner peace after their worlds have been turned upside down. Both shocking and tender, Rabbit Foot Bill is a riveting tale, full of compassion and told without judgement." -- Governor General's Award winning author Dianne Warren
A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR --
"One of the best -- and most wonderfully experimental -- historical fiction titles of the year. . . . Humphreys is an extraordinary writer. Truly spectacular." -- Toronto Star
"This gem of a novel is as unique as the woman who inspired it. . . . A transcendent life-honouring work." -- Postmedia
"[Humphreys'] impressive ability to tell a story through the ordinary actions of her characters makes reading Machine Without Horses an effortless pleasure." -- Winnipeg Free Press
"Machine Without Horses is so good, so powerful, that I cannot imagine reading the likes again." -- Owen Sound Sun-Times