We Were the Bullfighters

Intriguing. Hardboiled. Cinematic. We Were the Bullfighters is a truly fine romp of a novel! * Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of Wait Softly Brother * In her debut novel, Marianne K. Miller renders a little-explored time in Hemingway’s life with the accurate eye of the Hemingway scholar, but also with boldness and keen imagination. * Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife * Miller’s expertise on Hemingway and her penetrating observations about our responsibilities to our talents makes this a must-read historical fiction in which ‘artists are like convict’ and people choose what they will sacrifice for freedom. * Kim Echlin, author of Speak, Silence * A window into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean prose. * Lee Gowan, author of The Beautiful Place * Marianne Miller brings a deceptively light touch to this evocative and finely researched story of a colourful moment in the life of a burgeoning literary giant. With efficient language that Hemingway would have liked, she gives us a rollicking tale of escaped convicts on the run from Kingston Pen, and the young Toronto crime reporter in pursuit of a story and a literary path. We Were the Bullfighters wonderfully captures the character of Hemingway and the atmosphere of Toronto in the 1920s. * J.R. McConvey, author of Different Beasts * Skillfully capturing the wild, rum-running 1920s, Miller creates a fascinating, fictionalized tale of two men fighting to break free: one, a young Hemingway dreaming of his first great novel and the other, a daring bank robber on the run from Kingston Penitentiary. * Barbara Fradkin, author of the Inspector Green Mystery series *