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Fiction Contemporary Women

Mary, Mary

by (author) Lesley Crewe

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Aug 2022
Category
Contemporary Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771084536
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $21.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771084543
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $10.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781774711224
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

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

In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-­off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her more, but Mary's mother is too prickly and proud. So Mary goes to work, comes home, takes care of her family, and wonders if there'll ever be more to life.

When a young couple moves into the apartment upstairs, it sparks a series of changes that leads to major family revelations, and Mary discovers that sometimes doing the wrong thing is the exact right thing to do.

Tender, authentic, and crackling with Lesley's irrepressible humour, Mary, Mary is a book for anyone who's ever had a family – good, bad, or a messy mix of both.

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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