Lesley Crewe, author reading of "The Spirit of Scaterie" (drop-in) - Antigonish

Join us for a reading and signing with bestselling author, Lesley Crewe, as she tours with her new novel, The Spirit of Scatarie. This stunning new work of historical fiction is set on Nova Scotia’s remote Scatarie Island, following three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them. We hope to see you there! Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call the Antigonish Library at (902) 863-4276 or email, YW50aWdvbmlzaCB8IHBhcmwgISBucyAhIGNh.

About the author:

I love the ordinary moments.
I celebrate everyday things.
They are too often lost in the race for something grand. I hold dear our humdrum routines. These accumulating hours make up our lifetimes and when we remember, it is always the simplest of pleasures that make us happy. These are the memories I create in my books.

Hubby and I were raised in Montreal, but have lived in the same house in rural Cape Breton for forty-five years. It remains a sanctuary for our children and pets, both living and remembered. My writing began as an exercise in trying to understand my world and quickly became something that brought me joy. I dearly love my family, my little granddaughters Gia Elizabeth and Anna Moon, all creatures great and small, children’s books, and breathing in the wild ocean air.

Also, raisin tea biscuits.

https://www.lesleycrewe.com/


About the book:

You might be startled that this tale will be told to you by a ghost. I prefer the word spirit but it's all the same. The truth is, I have as much right to tell this story as anyone. Scatarie Island belongs to the living and the dead.

The Spirit of Scatarie
A stunning new work of historical fiction from the bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer, set on Nova Scotia’s remote Scatarie Island, following three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them.

You might be startled that this tale will be told to you by a ghost. I prefer the word spirit but it’s all the same. The truth is, I have as much right to tell this story as anyone. Scatarie Island belongs to the living and the dead

Christmas Day, 1922: three babies are born on Scatarie Island, off the coast of Cape Breton. Although born to different parents, Hardy, Sam, and Mary Alice grow up together in their wild homeplace, exploring the rocky coastline, picking bakeapples, and scavenging treasures from the countless ships that have wrecked there over the centuries.

But change is lapping at the shores of this isolated island, the Second World War the biggest change of all. One friend leaves to fight, one tends the light, and one struggles to understand how a place where wealth is measured in fish and family can possibly survive this outmigration.

Only one of them knows about Cara. A girl who wrecked on the island’s shores a hundred years earlier, emigrating from Ireland. A girl who fell in love with the windswept grasses and salt-scrubbed air and tight community of Scatarie, and remains as a spirit. A girl who keeps watch, everywhere from the rugged island to the blood-soaked beaches of France nudging the three friends towards their destinies.

Part ghost story, part romance, part history, and a stirring tribute to young soldiers and their brave war brides, The Spirit of Scatarie is an epic tale with whispering island winds at its heart.

https://www.lesleycrewe.com/spirit-of-scatarie

You may also like the following events from Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library:

• This Thursday, 28th August, 10:15 am, Summer Family Storytimes (drop-in) - New Glasgow (new location!) in New Glasgow
• Next Friday, 5th September, 01:00 pm, Stitching Circle (drop-in) - Stellarton in Stellarton
• Next month, 10th September, 10:15 am, Babies and Books (drop-in) - New Glasgow Library in New Glasgow

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