We Were the Bullfighters

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