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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Nocturne

on The Life And Death Of My Brother

by (author) Helen Humphreys

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Apr 2014
Category
Personal Memoirs
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443415477
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781443415453
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $24.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443415460
    Publish Date
    Apr 2014
    List Price
    $14.99

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From the bestselling author of The Reinvention of Love, a heartbreaking memoir of grief and a profound examination of the meaning of life.

Helen Humphreys' younger brother was gone before she could come to terms with the fact that he was terminally ill. Diagnosed with stage 4B pancreatic cancer at the age of forty-five, he died four months later, leaving behind a grieving family. Martin was an extraordinary pianist who debuted at the Royal Festival Hall in London at the age of twenty, later becoming a piano teacher and senior examiner at the Royal Conservatory of Music. The two siblings, though often living far apart, were bonded on many levels.

Now Humphreys has written a deeply felt, haunting memoir both about and for her brother. Speaking directly to him, she lays bare their secrets, their disagreements, their early childhood together, their intense though unspoken love for one another. A beautifully articulated testament to the power of human connection, this poetic, candid and intimate book is an offering not only to the memory of Martin but to all those who are living through the loss of family and friends.

About the author

HELEN HUMPHREYS’ last novel, The Reinvention Of Love, was a national bestseller. Coventry was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Humphreys won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize for Afterimage and the Toronto Book Award for Leaving Earth. Her much-loved novel The Lost Garden was a Canada Reads selection. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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