About the Author\
Lesley Crewe is the author of twelve novels, including the Globe & Mail bestselling The Spoon Stealer, Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which has been adapted into a feature film. She has also published two collections of essays, the Leacockâlonglisted Are You Kidding Me?! and I Kid You Not! Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com.\
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 Parker has just moved with her dad to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a whole new neighbourhood full of different kinds of people to spy on. Audrey is a lot of things: articulate, disarming, forthright. And, as her father reminds her often, indecently nosy.\
Audrey scribbles every observation down in her notebooks â from which foods her new teacher eats for lunch, to how blue the water is in Greece, to what time the one-legged man across the street gets home. She is certain she will soon root out a murderer or uncover a mystery. But there's only one mystery that really matters to her: her mother. Who was she? How did she die? Why won't her father ever talk about her?\
Over a year of Audrey's life, we bike with her through the streets of NDG, encountering stray animals, free-range kids, and adults both viciously cruel and wonderful. And we walk with Audrey across the threshold from childhood to adolescence, where she will discover the truth about her mother.\
Balancing humour and sadness as expertly as ever, author Lesley Crewe â who has so often captured Cape Breton perfectly on the page â turns her incisive observations for the first time to the NDG of the 1960s, where she grew up.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- City Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
Author : Crewe, Lesley
Language : English
Published :2022-06-27
Number Of Pages : 296
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1774710420
ISBN-13 : 9781774710425
Item weight : 0.94 lb
Dimensions : 0.91 in x 6.02 in x 9.25 in
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