{"product_id":"nosy-parker-9781774710425","title":"Nosy Parker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal \u0026amp; features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with her dad to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a whole new neighbourhood full of different kinds of people to spy on. Audrey is a lot of things: articulate, disarming, forthright. And, as her father reminds her often, indecently nosy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Audrey scribbles every observation down in her notebooks -- from which foods her new teacher eats for lunch, to how blue the water is in Greece, to what time the one-legged man across the street gets home. She is certain she will soon root out a murderer or uncover a mystery. But there's only one mystery that really matters to her: her mother. Who was she? How did she die? Why won't her father ever talk about her? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over a year of Audrey's life, we bike with her through the streets of NDG, encountering stray animals, free-range kids, and adults both viciously cruel and wonderful. And we walk with Audrey across the threshold from childhood to adolescence, where she will discover the truth about her mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Balancing humour and sadness as expertly as ever, author Lesley Crewe -- who has so often captured Cape Breton perfectly on the page -- turns her incisive observations for the first time to the NDG of the 1960s, where she grew up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrewe, Lesley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLesley Crewe\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twelve novels, including the \u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Spoon Stealer, Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Kin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRelative Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been adapted into a feature film. She has also published two collections of essays, the Leacock-longlisted \u003ci\u003eAre You Kidding Me?!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Kid You Not!\u003c\/i\u003e Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com.","brand":"Nimbus Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496379453714,"sku":"9781774710425","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_04d490c8-b168-4749-9ad0-defeedada7fe.jpg?v=1730693781","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nosy-parker-9781774710425","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}