Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen Humphreys
The Monday Evening Book Club meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:00 PM via Zoom.
Book Club Kit copies are available for participants upon request from the Adult Information Desk (780-459-1682). If you prefer a digital copy of the book, click here.
Register to drop-in and discuss this insightful, compelling novel based on the true story of a small town murder in 1940s Saskatchewan.
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. (from harpercollins.ca)
FURTHER READING
INTERVIEW: 1947 Saskatchewan murder case provides the hook for ‘Rabbit Foot Bill’ | Global News
REVIEW: Lonely Hearts Club: Settling in with Helen Humphreys | Literary Review of Canada
REVIEW: Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen | Cloud Lake Literary
WATCH & LISTEN
INTERVIEW: An Evening with Emma Donoghue & Helen Humphreys | Kitchener Public Library
