Lesley Crewe

• Sep-2008
• / Women's Fiction
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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.Ava Harris is a...

• Sep-2008
• / Literary
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The delightful romantic comedy -- now an award-winning feature film. The debut novel from the bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer.   Filled with heartache without being maudlin, this contemporary novel about life and love in a small tow...

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction
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From best-selling author Lesley Crewe comes a poignant and moving novel. Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a teenager and stayed away for years. A...

• Sep-2010
• / Women's Fiction
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The South End house where Elsie Brooks and her big, complicated family live is bursting with secrets. Elsie's banished husband lives in the basement. Her lonely sister lives in the attic. Her twenty-something daughters come and go as they please. And...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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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. In Kin, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of l...

• Aug-2014
• / Women's Fiction
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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. As the filming gets underway, though, ac...

• Jan-2016
• / Women's Fiction
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“A warm-hearted story of one woman’s journey from a dark and abusive childhood into the light of acceptance and love” from the author of Relative Happiness (Atlantic Books Today).  Can you really move forward without putting the ...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction
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A story of family malfunction. The Leacock Medal-longlisted novel from the author of Relative Happiness -- now an award-winning feature film.     In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is pati...

• Mar-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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The author of Relative Happiness -- now an award-winning film -- “shines a light on the secrets and lies that bind generations of Cape Breton families” (Toronto Star).   The story begins with Nell, the “spinster on the hill” near St...

• Oct-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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Born into a basket of clean sheets -- ruining a perfectly good load of laundry -- Emmeline never quite fit in on her family's rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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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 (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum). But at the LaGu...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe’s new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother.
It’s 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Park...

• Jun-2023
• / Women's Fiction
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Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe's novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller-format editions. The story begins with Nell, the spinster on the hill near St. Peter's, Cape Breton. Scarred by her own childhood, she swea...

• Sep-2023
• / General Fiction
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On paper, Kitty’s life is perfect. She lives in Montreal, so vibrant in the 1950s; she married her childhood sweetheart, who happens to also be a handsome movie star; and her detective novels, written under a plausibly male nom de plume, are bestse...

• Jun-2024
• / Women's Fiction
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National bestselling author Lesley Crewe's new novel explores widowhood, complicated family dynamics, and growing up at any age. Well, Dick's dead. Now what? Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn't wa...

• / Women's Fiction
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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. Monty, M...