Helen Humphreys

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born

March 29, 1961 in London, The United Kingdom

website

http://www.hhumphreys.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Helen Humphreys is the author of four books of poetry, five novels, and one work of creative non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario with her dog, Hazel.

Her first novel, Leaving Earth(1997), won the 1998 City of Toronto Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her second novel, Afterimage (2000), won the 2000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her third novel, The Lost Garden (2002), was a 2003 Canada Reads selection, a national bestseller, and was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Wild Dogs (2004) won the 2005 Lambda Prize for fiction, has been option...more

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Books by Helen Humphreys

Average rating: 3.69 · 1,611 ratings · 374 reviews · 19 distinct works

	The Lost Garden 3.73 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Coventry 3.66 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Frozen Thames 3.81 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Afterimage: A Novel 3.75 avg rating — 186 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Wild Dogs: 3.78 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Reinvention of Love 3.21 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Leaving Earth: A Novel 3.52 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Anthem 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Perils of Geography 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Ethel on Fire 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:

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“This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.”
― Helen Humphreys

tags: the-lost-garden

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“The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?”
― Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden

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“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”
― Helen Humphreys, Coventry

tags: loneliness , reading , reading-books , time

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