Nosy Parker
Sandra Furlotte
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Deana Bueley
, Marilyn Stanley
, Penelope Penner
, Sarah Schwartz
, Rebecca Dixon
, Joshua Lewis
, Joann Horgan
, Jude Castillo
, Hoda Montazeri
, Benita Hartwell
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Hayley Chandler
, Stephanie Baird
, sarah campbell
, Patricia McCowan
, Susan Hughes
, Page Burton
, Meradith Anderson
, Nicky Robb
, Chris Carvalho
, Rianna Mcgarry
, Deb Philippon
, Margaret Palmer
, Thelma Ball
, Cathy White
, Andrea Pole
, diana kirkwood
, Andrea Gillespie
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Jen Bailey
, Noelle Walsh
, Julie Kaniak
, Linda Leitch
, Mary Therrien
, Dawn Mcnamara
, Heather Norris
, VJ Hatton
, LJ Law
, Natasa Ilic
, Tara Murphy
, Jean Keetch
, Susan Toy
, Siobhan Laskey
, Virginia Reddin
, Arshia Goraya
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Summer Halls
, Gabriella Fars
, Colleen Crawley
, P. Thompson
, Debra Fisher
, Huguette Lemieux
, Barry Kazimer
, Carrie Morris
, Jill Rothwell
, Alice Smith
, Sunshine Gudlaugson
, Hilary Squires
, Patricia Johnson
, Tina May
, angie kuhnle
, zelda dwyer
, Paula Adam
, Shayla Bradley
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Beth Dekoker
, Deborah Nagy
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Kirsten Kennedy
, Ken Gilmour
, Holly Douglas
, fiona kelly
, Freda Mans-Labianca
, Audrey Borg
, Lauren Seal
, Maria Mclean
, Lori Watson
, Elaine Baptie
, Cindy Bodini
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Eva Osterlee
, Mary Boulos
, Rachel Edmonds
, Laurie Burns
, Margaret Jones
, Megan Brodie
, Esther VanGorder
, Chloe Moore
, Bruce Retallack
, Carolyn Guy
, Brenda Vaccarello
, CHRISTINE ST. JOHN
, Janice Cournoyer
, Tiffany C
, Leslie Vermeer
, Vicki Bedford
, Christine Lion
, Patricia McKeown
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Susan Haldane
, Sharon Randall
, Jane Graham
, Reilly Robson
, Susan Jang
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Deborah Kennedy
, BJ Underwood
, Karen Kendrick
, Robert Hykawy
, Ashley Pamenter
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Susan Terendy
, Heather O'Connor
, Melissa Poremba
, Catherine Westerberg
, Anndee Newson
, Lisa Mallia
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Mary Danieli
, Janet Miller
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Lara Maynard
, Delfina Trevisan
, Dinah Laprairie
, Wanda Brine
, Jody Spencer
, Gwynn Scheltema
, KYRYN SWANSON
, Debbie Youngman
, Shawna Sanderson
, Jenn George
, Crystal Inwood
, Sean Pynaert
, John Bell
, Sebastian Schulman
, Rhona Brinkman
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Lauraine Twilley
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Janice B Knickle
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t'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.
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?
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.
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.
