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The Spoon Stealer

By: (Author) Lesley Crewe

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Ksh 4,050.00

Format: Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10: 1771088818

ISBN-13: 9781771088817

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Ltd

Imprint: Nimbus Publishing Ltd

Country of Manufacture: CA

Country of Publication: GB

Publication Date: Jun 9th, 2021

Print length: 360 Pages

Weight: 436 grams

Dimensions (height x width x thickness): 15.50 x 23.50 x 3.00 cms

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The main character is born in 1894. The book contains her memoir, so the action goes back and forth in time, including Emmeline''s childhood, through World War One and World War Two and up to "present day," which is 1968-1969.
Set in both Nova Scotia and England in the decades following the First World War, The Spoon Stealer is a classic Lesley Crewe book: full of humour, family secrets, women's friendship, lovable animals, and immense heart.
Brighten The Corner Where You Are has been Longlisted for 2022 Dublin Literary Awards, and was the winner of the 2021 Miramichi Reader''s "The Very Best!" Book Awards.A brilliant novel reimagining the life of internationally renowned folk artist Maud Lewis by an award-winning author. One glimpse of the tiny painted house that folk art legend Maud Lewis shared with her husband, Everett, in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, during the mid-twentieth century and the startling contrast between her joyful artwork and her life''s deprivations is evident. One glimpse at her photo and you realise, for all her smile''s shyness, she must''ve been one tough cookie. But, beneath her iconic resilience, who was Maud, really? How did she manage, holed up in that one-room house with no running water, married to a miserly man known for his drinking? Was she happy, or was she miserable? Did painting save or make her Everett''s meal ticket? And then there are the darker secrets that haunt her story: the loss of her parents, her child, her first love. Against all odds, Maud Lewis rose above these constraints - and this is where you''ll find the Maud of Brighten the Corner Where You Are: speaking her mind from beyond the grave, freed of the stigmas of gender, poverty, and disability that marked her life and shaped her art. Unfettered and feisty as can be, she tells her story her way, illuminating the darkest corners of her life. In possession of a voice all her own, Maud demonstrates the agency that hovers within us all.

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. 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. And so, she fled across the Atlantic and built her life in England. Now she is retired and living in a small coastal town with her best friend, Vera, an excellent conversationalist. Vera is also a small white dog, and so Emmeline is making an effort to talk to more humans. When she joins a memoir-writing course at the library, her classmates don''t know what to make of her. Funny, loud, and with a riveting memoir, she charms the lot. As her past unfolds for her audience, friendships form, a bonus in a rather lonely life. 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. She is a compulsive spoon stealer.

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 arrives like a tornado in their lives, an off-kilter Mary Poppins bossing everyone around and getting quite a lot wrong. But with her generosity and hard-earned wisdom, she gets an awful lot right too. 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.

The Spoon Stealer is a classic Crewe book: full of humour, family secrets, women''s friendship, lovable animals, and immense heart.


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