Bookmark, Charlottetown’s independent bookstore, is thrilled to be welcoming book club favourite Lesley Crewe to Charlottetown on Thursday, October 16th at 7 pm for the launch of her new book The Spirit of Scatarie. The event, which is free and open to all, will be held at St Paul’s Anglican Church.
The Spirit of Scatarie, a stunning new work of historical fiction set on Nova Scotia's remote Scatarie Island, follows three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them.
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.
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.
LESLEY CREWE is the Globe and Mail bestselling author of fourteen novels, including the national bestseller Death & Other Inconveniences, Recipe for a Good Life, The Spoon Stealer, longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, 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!
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