Are You Kidding Me?!

Lesley Crewe

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Are You Kidding Me?!

Chronicles of an Ordinary Life

  Author:   Lesley Crewe    
  Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing Limited

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

Not merely razor sharp, Lesley’s wit is also ocean wide, taking in everything from the humiliations of breast pumping to the indignities of aging, from the frantic excess of holiday preparations to the homey irritations of a long marriage.

As precise in her observations as Jane Austen and as fractious on occasion as Oscar the Grouch, Crewe also has a sweet, tender centre, taking us from a hearty laugh to a good cry in a single paragraph. Readers will relate to Crewe’s ache at missing her mom, her nostalgia for her childhood, her frustrations at raising teenagers, and her impatience for terrible parking lot etiquette in equal measure. The book spans sixteen years’ worth of columns for The Cape Bretoner Magazine, Cahoots Magazine, and The Chronicle Herald.

Are You Kidding Me?! is a side-splitting, heartwarming, Cape Breton–flavoured celebration of the little things.
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ISBN associated with this title: 9781771087926
Item NB1475
PublisherNimbus Publishing Limited
PublisherNimbus Publishing Limited
Published on September 11 2019
Language eng
Pages 256
Format Paperback
Dimensions9.25(in) x 6(in)
Shipping weight407(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Lesley Crewe
Lesley Crewe is the author of several novels, including Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Chloe Sparrow, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which has been adapted into a feature film. Previously a columnist and freelance writer, Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com.

Quick Quotes

"Reading Recipe For a Good Life was like being on the receiving end of an enormous hug just when you need it most. Bursting at the seams with heart and humour, this book is a most glorious love letter to the amazing women of rural Cape Breton. I now want to get a time machine and move to South Head Road!"

— Bianca Marais, bestselling author of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

"Lesley Crewe has done it again! Recipe for a Good Life absolutely delivers, with vivid characters, and plenty of moments both hilarious and touching. Lesley's writing with lots of love, here, and it shows."

— Stephanie Domet, Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women, Fallsy Downsies

"Fans of the delightful Lesley Crewe know that she can skillfully make you weep or laugh at the drop of a noun. In her latest novel, Recipe for a Good Life, she weaves loneliness like silk into the soul of a person with a stitch of humour. This clever author knows that the heart can teach you more than you will ever teach it."

— Beatrice MacNeil, bestselling author of Where White Horses Gallop

"I fell arse over tea kettle in love with the characters in this book, and now find myself missing them on a daily basis. That's the sign of a good story!"

— Nancy Regan, bestselling author of From Showing Off to Showing UP

"Recipe for a Good Life is Notting Hill meets Cape Breton — if Julia Roberts was a bestselling author and Hugh Grant a clandestine baker instead of a bookseller. Kitty steps out of her cosmopolitan life in Mad Menera-Montreal to the world of South Head, Cape Breton, where telephones are still using the Party Line (catnip for the local gossip). It's a life-changing writing retreat for a woman stagnating in her work and marriage. With Crewe's signature wit and a cast of cheeky characters, lolloping dogs and heaps of food, this is a warm hug of a book. You'll wish you could go for a stroll along the beach with Walrus and the dogs or bum a cigarette from Gaynor over a literary lunch."

— Nicola Davison, award-winning author of In the Wake and Decoding Dot Grey

  

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