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Fiction Family Life

Kin

by (author) Lesley Crewe

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Aug 2021
Category
Family Life
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551099224
    Publish Date
    Sep 2012
    List Price
    $19.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781774710302
    Publish Date
    Aug 2021
    List Price
    $26.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781551099262
    Publish Date
    Apr 2012
    List Price
    $1.99

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Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe's novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller format editions.

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 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.
Brimming with humour and poignancy, Kin is a celebration of the heartbreaking, maddening joy that is family.

About the author

Lesley Crewe is the Globe and Mail – bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Nosy Parker, which was named one of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2022, The Spoon Stealer, longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which was adapted into an award-winning feature film. She has also published two collections of essays, the Leacock — longlisted Are You Kidding Me?! and I Kid You Not! Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com.

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