[4] Martin focused her writing style on risks and illnesses of love, and wrote with prejudice and social conventions.

According to her interview with Winnipeg Free Press, it is said that her father gave negative influence on her childhood being against education for girls and expressing the hatred toward women.

Her next two novels, the psychological thriller Doux-amer in 1960 and Quand j'aurai payé ton visage in 1962 were praised for elegant use of language.

She won the Prix France-Québec and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (French) for her autobiographical books Dans un gant de fer (1965) and La joue droite (1966), respectively.

Her final novel, Les Morts (1970), was adapted and shown at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert in 1972.