Machine Without Horses: A Novel
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One of the bestand most wonderfully experimentalhistorical fiction titles of the year. . . . Truly spectacular. Toronto Star What is an ordinary life worth? A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinaryeccentric revered in her field a renowned expertbut also utterly ordinary. How does a writer intrigued by all that isnt said create a story or capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions choices and compromises that make up a life? In Machine Without Horses Helen Humphreys explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famous and famously private salmon-fly dresser Megan Boyd a craftswoman who worked for sixty years out of a bare-bones cottage in a small village in the north of Scotland. Humphreys both present in the story and its architect reveals with her inimitable style the complicated emotional landscape that can exist under even the most constant surface.
