Rabbit Foot Bill
Written by Helen Humphreys
Narrated by Christopher Grove
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.
Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling.
Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard—an escape from school, bullies and a hard father. So his shock is absolute when he witnesses Bill commit a sudden violent act and loses him to prison.
Fifteen years on, as a newly graduated doctor of psychiatry, Leonard arrives at the Weyburn Mental Hospital, both excited and intimidated by the massive institution known for its experimental LSD trials. To Leonard’s great surprise, at the Weyburn he is reunited with Bill and soon becomes fixated on discovering what happened on that fateful day in 1947.
Based on a true story, this page-turning novel from a master stylist examines the frailty and resilience of the human mind.
Helen Humphreys
HELEN HUMPHREYS is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. She has also been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her most recent work includes the novel Rabbit Foot Bill and the memoir And a Dog Called Fig. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Helen Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.
More audiobooks from Helen Humphreys
Followed by the Lark Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5
Related to Rabbit Foot Bill
Related audiobooks
The Christmas Letters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wolf's Mother Speaks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annabel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Too Much Lip: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Clay Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Our Shimmering Skies: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5At the Wolf's Table: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dirty Birds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Above Us Only Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Septembers of Shiraz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Singing Forest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wind is Not a River Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Yellow Earth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lala Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The City Still Breathing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Fist or a Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Malagash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night Came With Many Stars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaving Coy's Hill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlone in the Classroom Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Blue Wings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Old Baggage: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Verdun Affair Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Aviary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Optimistic Decade Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Spy Lover Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Literary Fiction For You
Yellowface: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Song of Achilles: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bright Young Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hate U Give Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anxious People: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Measure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The It Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Rabbit Foot Bill
6 ratings0 reviews