Martha Brooks





Martha Brooks

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Critically acclaimed playwright, novelist and short fiction writer Martha Brooks was born and raised in a medical family on the grounds of the now defunct Manitoba Sanatorium at Ninette, Manitoba and resides with her husband, Brian, in Winnipeg.

She has penned award-winning short stories and several powerful novels for young readers, as well as several plays, all of which deal with the universal themes of love and loss. Her finely drawn characters learn to deal with the trials life sends their way and grow because of such trials.

Frequently appearing on the American Library Association Best Books Lists, Brooks has been nominated four times for the Governor­General's Award - receiving it, at last, in 2002 for "True Confessions of a Heartless...more


Average rating: 3.51 · 1,284 ratings · 260 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
Mistik Lake
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
Queen of Hearts
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
True Confessions of a Heart...
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions
Two Moons in August
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions
Bone Dance
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
Being with Henry
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
Traveling On Into The Light
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
Paradise Cafe: And Other St...
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
A Hill For Looking
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982
Confessions D'une Fille San...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004
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“thoughts are cheap and they don't hurt anybody”
Martha Brooks, Mistik Lake

“But he photographs, they were irreplaceable. How should you determine the financial worth of a memory, one that looks at you, makes the world stop turning and takes your breath...”
Martha Brooks

“Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.”
Martha Brooks, Bone Dance

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