Born into a basket of clean sheets--ruining a perfectly good load of laundry--Emmeline never quite fit in on her family\'s rural Nova Scotian farm.
The Spoon Stealer is a classic Crewe book: full of humour, family secrets, women\'s friendship, lovable animals, and immense heart..
A pinball ricocheting between people, offending and inspiring in equal measure, Emmeline, in her final years, believes that a spoonful--perhaps several spoonfuls--of kindness can set to rights the family so broken by loss and secrecy.
But with her generosity and hard-earned wisdom, she gets an awful lot right too.
She arrives like a tornado in their lives, an off-kilter Mary Poppins bossing everyone around and getting quite a lot wrong.
When Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she grew up on, she knows she needs to leave her new friends and go see the farm and what remains of her family one last time.
She is a compulsive Spoon stealer.
She even shares with them her third-biggest secret: she has liberated hundreds of spoons over her lifetime--from the local library, Cary Grant, Winston Churchill.
As her past unfolds for her audience, friendships form, a bonus in a rather lonely life.
Funny, loud, and with a riveting memoir, she charms the lot.
When she joins a memoir-writing course at the library, her classmates don\'t know what to make of her.
Vera is also a small white dog, and so Emmeline is making an effort to talk to more humans.
Now she is retired and living in a small coastal town with her best friend, Vera, an excellent conversationalist.
And so, she fled across the Atlantic and built her life in England.
After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her.
Born into a basket of clean sheets--ruining a perfectly good load of laundry--Emmeline never quite fit in on her family\'s rural Nova Scotian farm
