Recipe for a Good Life
Recipe for a Good Life
VJ Hatton
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Susan Toy
, Noelle Walsh
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Janice B Knickle
, Amanda Schempp
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Jude Castillo
, Linda Leitch
, Penny Gilman
, Deana Bueley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Mathew Webb
, Sandra Furlotte
, Joshua Lewis
, Andrea Pole
, Sunshine Gudlaugson
, Marilyn Stanley
, Hayley Chandler
, Shannon Holmes
, Barry Kazimer
, Ed Gilman
, Paula Adam
, LJ Law
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joe Mitchell
, Claire Gear
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Tyler Webb
, Andy Holmes
, Thelma Ball
, Natasa Ilic
, Julie Kaniak
, Lauren Seal
, Jennifer Beyak
, joy mills
, Shayla Bradley
, Dani Kat
, Carrie Morris
, Mary Therrien
, Courtney White
, Agnes Marshall
, Trish Bowering
, Andrea Gillespie
, Irene O’Neill
, Deb Philippon
, Jennifer Falkner
, Jennifer Morse
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Tracy Fox
, Hoda Montazeri
, Patricia Johnson
, Vicki Bedford
, Ellen Clarke
, Laurie Burns
, Marjorie Roy
, Dawn Macdonald
, Tanya Boudreau
, Cindy Bodini
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Judy Richardson
, Sharon Bird
, Crystal Inwood
, Jill Rothwell
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Remi Gunn
, zelda dwyer
, P. Thompson
, Susan Hughes
, Ken Gilmour
, Mary Dolan
, Heather Rose
, Paula Ritchie
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Heather Belliveau
, Christine Lion
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, S. A. M. McCue
, Jane Graham
, Rachel Lutz
, Mary Danieli
, Kathryn Galan
, Donna Gamache
, Huguette Lemieux
, Diana Richardson
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Lynn Hallson
, Darlene Foster
, Benita Hartwell
, Maria Mclean
, Denise Duvall
, Rosa Cross
, Janet Meisner
, Rodney Cross
, Donald Forsythe
, Catherine Westerberg
, Patricia McKeown
, Kate Kostandoff
, Kim Fenton
, Margaret McKay
, Maureen Brownlee
, Marilyn Kaluza Massoud
, Andrea Mack
, BJ Underwood
, Ron Thompson
, Leslie Vermeer
, Susan Baues
, Sandra Dufoe
, Pam Keetch
, jane luce
, Kim Cappellina
, Gwynn Scheltema
, diana kirkwood
, Dielle MacArthur
, Kathy Trithardt
, Lynn Bechtel
, Alice Meems
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lisa Mallia
, Stacy Stafford
, Karen Kendrick
, Melissa Kohlman
, C. Ray
, Karen Nordrum
, Catherine Young
, Debra Fisher
, Karen Bass
, E. Ainslie
, Debbie Youngman
, Melissa Poremba
, Reilly Robson
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Elaine Baptie
, Julia Belleghem
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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.
On paper, Kitty's life is perfect. 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. 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. Her husband is a glib Lothario. And she never, ever wants to write another detective novel. When she says as much to her publishers, they panic. She's their golden goose. 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. At least, that was the plan.
Kitty arrives in Cape Breton to a leaky, drafty shack and a cast of characters unlike anyone she's ever met. 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. A gentle giant who always has half a dozen children hanging off him. 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. 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?
