<p>Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller format editions.</p> <p><i>Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest?</i></p> […]
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<p>From the author of <i>Relative Happiness</i> and <i>Shoot Me</i> 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. </p>
<p>Ava Harris is a famous actress living the life of the rich and fabulous in L.A. when a family crisis calls her home. It’s been ten years since she’s set foot in Glace Bay, Cape Breton—back when she was plain old Libby MacKinnon. Why she ran away, no one knows. Returning home, she must face her family, her friends, and her first love, Seamus O’Reilly, whose heart broke the day she left. </p>
<p>Ava is a good little actress, determined that no one will know what happened. She will keep the truth buried at all costs—even if she has to run again. But secrets have a way of surfacing, especially in a small town, and love has a way of blasting through the toughest barriers. While Ava can never go home again, perhaps Libby finally can.</p>
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. […]
<p><i>Bird Shadows</i> is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that […]
<p><b>National bestselling author Lesley Crewe’s new novel explores widowhood, complicated family dynamics, and growing up at any age.</b></p> <p>Well, Dick’s dead. Now what?</p> <p>Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge […]
<p><strong>This defiant and unapologetically sardonic debut novel explores the collision between fear and longing.</strong></p> <p><em>Eyes in Front When Running</em> is a quick-witted family drama that uses humour to tackle heavy topics, […]
<p>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.</p>
<p>In <i>Kin</i>, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-old living in Glace Bay in the 1930s, and ending with Annie’s great-niece Hilary, an idealistic twenty-year-old in Round Island in 2000, the story is complex and riveting. The cast of characters is vast and varied-some with the island’s deliciously cutting wit, some dour and uptight, some frail, some resilient, and all inextricably bound by their shared histories.</p>
<p>Brimming with humour and poignancy, <i>Kin</i> is a celebration of the heartbreaking, maddening joy that is family.</p>
Clementine Ellis has always hated the fact that she is named after a long list of dead aunts, despite her father’s reminders that her name means ‘one who is merciful’ […]
<p>Marilla Cuthbert was fifty-two years old when the plucky red-headed Anne Shirley came to live with her and her brother, Matthew, at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island. A seemingly cold and dour spinster, her heart eventually softens to the loveable orphan girl. But for over a century readers have wondered, who was Marilla before Anne? </p>
<p>In Louise Michalos’s remarkable debut novel, readers are introduced to a spirited eighteen-year-old Marilla Cuthbert—a girl not unlike Anne herself—who is desperately in love, and whose whole life is spread before her. But when a moment of defiance brings life-changing consequences, a new Marilla begins to take shape, one who would learn to bear tragedy like a birthright, and loss as an inevitability, and who would hold steadfast to the secrets that could shatter the lives of everyone around her. </p>
<p>Weaving its way from Marilla’s early life in Avonlea to her coming-of-age in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and back, <i>Marilla Before Anne</i> is the story readers of <i>Anne of Green Gables</i> have longed for. Told with a refreshingly original East Coast voice, this exquisite, heartbreaking work of historical fiction takes readers on a journey back in time, to the Green Gables where Marilla Cuthbert lived, loved, and learned, long before Anne.</p>
<p><b>Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller-format editions.</b></p> <p>In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as […]
<p>It’s 1942, and the Nazi Juggernaut continues to crush Europe, while on the island of Newfoundland the loss of a generation awaits. Two girls who are best friends heading into […]
<p> »Think ‘The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ reimagined by Kathy Acker. » — <b>The Toronto Star</b></p> <p>Growing up in an isolated island town with her siblings and absentee […]
