Lesley Crewe

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  • Amazing Grace

    Amazing Grace

    Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she’s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d’Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parson

  • Are You Kidding Me?!

    Are You Kidding Me?!

    For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe’s finest newspaper columns are collected in one place.

  • Ava Comes Home

    Ava Comes Home

    From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret―a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved.

  • Beholden

    Beholden

    The story begins with Nell, the “spinster on the hill” near St. Peter’s, Cape Breton. Scarred by her own childhood, she swears she could never love a child and that she will never marry, denying herself a life with the man she loves.

  • Chloe Sparrow

    Chloe Sparrow

    Chloe Sparrow is a twenty-five-year-old TV producer with a hit show on her hands. The Single Guy is a popular new reality series, where dozens of women are trying to woo bachelor veterinarian Austin Hawke.

  • Death & Other Inconveniences

    Death & Other Inconveniences

    Well, Dick’s dead. Now what? Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn’t want to deal with the details―why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery.

  • Her Mother's Daughter

    Her Mother’s Daughter

    Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a a teenager and stayed away for years.

  • Hit and Mrs

    Hit and Mrs

    Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they’re all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together

  • I Kid You Not!

    I Kid You Not!

    I Kid You Not! is a follow-up to bestselling author Lesley Crewe’s first hit column-and-essay collection, Are You Kidding Me?! Here Lesley is hilarious and insightful as ever, giving us her take on everything from hockey to wildlife to the ache of missing our ancestors in ninety essays.

  • Kin

    Kin

    Traditions, created, and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms.

  • Mary

    Mary, Mary

    In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to

  • Nosy Parker

    Nosy Parker

    Lesley Crewe’s new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal and features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother.

  • Recipe for a Good Life

    Recipe for a Good Life

    Lesley Crewe’s new novel follows a mystery author with writer’s block from 1950s Montreal to rural Cape Breton, in search of much more than her next big story.

  • Relative Happiness

    Relative Happiness

    Lexie Ivy loves her little house in Cape Breton, her big family, and the endless sea that surrounds her. She wouldn’t trade her life for anything, but at thirty she’s starting to feel like something’s missing.

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