Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe\'s new novel follows a mystery author with writer\'s block from 1950s Montreal to rural Cape Breton, in search of much more than her next big story.
Can she preserve what she loves in Montreal now that Cape Breton is calling? If she frees herself from the weight of her past, will she float away altogether? From Globe and Mail--bestselling author Lesley Crewe comes a story of loneliness and belonging, and a love letter to the women who have always kept the kettles warm and the neighbours fed in rural Cape Breton..
Soon Kitty\'s writing retreat turns her Life upside down, and she has to face which parts of her Life are non-negotiable and which she must cut loose.
A gentle giant who always has half a dozen children hanging off him.
There\'s Edith, who listens in on everyone\'s party line calls and never keeps Good gossip to herself; generous Bertha and her enormous family...and Bertha\'s son, Wallace -- Walrus, to all his nieces and nephews.
Kitty arrives in Cape Breton to a leaky, drafty shack and a cast of characters unlike anyone she\'s ever met.
At least, that was the plan.
And so they convince her to go on a writing retreat to a beautiful remote island, Cape Breton, where with solitude and a luxurious change of scenery, she\'ll be able to whip up her next book.
She\'s their golden goose.
When she says as much to her publishers, they panic.
And she never, ever wants to write another detective novel.
Her husband is a glib Lothario.
But Kitty is suffocating under the truth of her life: Montreal feels chaotic and lonely without her mother, and with her father all but estranged.
She lives in Montreal, so vibrant in the 1950s; she married her childhood sweetheart, who happens to also be a handsome movie star; and her detective novels, written under a plausibly male nom de plume, are bestsellers.
On paper, Kitty\'s Life is perfect.
Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe\'s new novel follows a mystery author with writer\'s block from 1950s Montreal to rural Cape Breton, in search of much more than her next big story
