Wasn't a fan of this. Although I made it to the end, I never really got into this book.
I am hoping to write an amazing review for this one to try to explain how fantastically this author writes. So I need to think about what I want to say and will finish this review tomorrow. A relatively simple story about three people, James who will spend five years as a prisoner of war in a German...
Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Report: It is a matter of historical record that the Thames, giant river and estuary that drains the heart of Southern England, has frozen solid forty times in the span of record-keeping that we possess. Author Humphreys sets about telling the story of these extraordinar...
This is a short novel, made even more short by the structure in which the is story retold through each character's point of view. The first half of the book is the story told through Alice, who we come to see as the main character. Then, for the second half of the book, bits of the story are retold ...
A tense and sublimated triangle is at the heart of “Afterimage“: Isabelle, the reluctant lady who is a pioneer in photography and wants to be respected for her work rather her station; her husband Eldon, a sickly man who never got to be an explorer and who works out his disappointments in the making...
I clipped Humphreys' poem "Installation" from The Globe & Mail somewhere around 1999, and it has been posted on my fridge ever since. I finally got this collection of poems, and will be interested to see if the rest of Humphreys' poetry (she is better known as the writer of The Lost Garden) stand u...
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