{"title":"Helen Humphreys","description":"Helen Humphreys is an acclaimed, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her work includes the novels The Evening Chorus, Coventry, and Afterimage, and the nonfiction books And a Dog Called Fig, The Ghost Orchard, and The Frozen Thames. She has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Toronto Book Award, and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award, and CBC Radio's Canada Reads.","products":[{"product_id":"followed-by-the-lark-paperback","title":"Followed by the Lark - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A luscious novel . . . [Helen] Humphreys offers a fresh view of a philosopher thought of as a loner, depicting his family home as a place for communion and companionship . . . This is Thoreau as he really lived.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Hillary Kelly, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of change, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowed by the Lark\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003einhabits the life of Henry David Thoreau.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry felt his pulse quickening with the lengthening days and the return of the birds, with the leafing out of the trees and the whir of the poplars, the trembling song of the frogs in the marsh. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe mark time and make our mark on the earth, even as everything around us is shifting and growing, and soon enough these marks will disappear. Friendship comes and reorients us to the horizon; loss comes and stretches out into loneliness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry measured and recorded the temperature on and around Walden Pond across the seasons. He built a cabin on its banks and lived there mostly alone--for two years, two months, and two days. He took long walks, floated down rivers with his brother, lost that brother and a friend when they were both still young, read and wrote books, left for the city and came back, heard the romantic whistle of the train transform into the clanging disruption of industry and the destruction of forests hundreds of years grown, watched a young nation rush toward conflict, helped refugees find their next stop on the road to freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by the life, letters, and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, \u003ci\u003eFollowed by the Lark\u003c\/i\u003e shows how strikingly similar the concerns of the early nineteenth century are to our own, and reminds us to listen for news of change: the song of spring's first bluebird, reports from those who have heard it, and all the sounds and fearful wonders that come after.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103785685215,"sku":"9781250371775","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qpv5ELtvyT9781250371775.webp?v=1781097618"},{"product_id":"the-lost-garden-paperback","title":"The Lost Garden - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside. She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months, the young women and men will form attachments, living in a temporary rural escape. No one will be more changed by the stay than Gwen. She will inspire the girls to restore the estate gardens, fall in love with a soldier, find her first deep friendship, and bring a lost garden, created for a great love, back to life. While doing so, she will finally come to know herself and a life worth living. Reading group guide included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104472371423,"sku":"9780393324914","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DkARHBqDF99780393324914.webp?v=1781108384"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/helen-humphreys.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}