Lesley Crewe

Lesley Crewe

Lesley Crewe is a Canadian novelist, columnist, and humorist who has written over a dozen widely acclaimed novels. Lesley grew up in Montreal, Quebec. She graduated from Concordia University with a degree in English and Education, before settling down with her husband in Homeville, Cape Breton where they raised a family.

Lesley has worked as a features writer and columnist for several Cape Breton publications including Cape Bretoner Magazine, Cahoots Magazine and The Chronicle Herald. Many of her popular articles and essays have been collected in the books Are You Kidding Me?! and I Kid You Not! She published her first novel, Relative Happiness, in 2005 at age fifty and it became an instant bestseller. It was later adapted into a feature film.

Lesley has lived in the same house in rural Cape Breton for forty-five years and tells the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia that she is inspired by Cape Breton. “This place is a haven for the most fantastic characters alive. I just stand in line at Sobeys and they’re right there. Being here is like being in the middle of a great big character soup! Silver Donald Cameron told me there was a very handsome priest in his neck of the woods that the locals called ‘Father What-a-Waste’. How can you beat that?”

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Lesley Crewe is acclaimed for the wit, humour and poignancy she brings to the every day lives of her characters. Lesley has jokingly called her novels “longwinded diaries” and says she fully embraces the ordinary. She writes on her website, “I love the ordinary moments. I celebrate everyday things. They are too often lost in the race for something grand. I hold dear our humdrum routines. These accumulating hours make up our lifetimes and when we remember, it is always the simplest of pleasures that make us happy. These are the memories I create in my books.”