Kin by Lesley Crewe

Kin – A Novel by Lesley Crewe:

Worth Checking Out!

* I received a bundle of books from Nimbus Publishing for review. This book was reviewed by Linda Shaffelburg. Thanks Linda!*

When you read the book jacket, this is what you find:

Traditions, created and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all it’s convoluted forms.

In KIN, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-old living in Glace Bay in the 1930s, and ending with Annie’s great-niece Hilary, an idealistic twenty-year-old in Round Island in 2000, the story is complex and riveting. The cast of characters is vast and varied – some with the island’s deliciously cutting wit, some dour and uptight, some frail, some resilient, and all inextricably bound by their shared histories.

Brimming with humour and poignancy, Kin is a celebration of the heartbreaking, maddening joy that is family.

Here is what Linda had to say about the book:

Kin, by Lesley Crewe is a novel that will pull you in and before you know it you’re invested in the characters, hours have gone by, you’re still in you pjs, the dog hasn’t been walked and your family has not been fed.

Kin is a story of a true friendship, not a perfect friendship, not a story book friendship but a realistic friendship.

Kin is about family and the triumphs and tribulations that are life.

Kin is a story based in Cape Breton in a time when life, although plagued with hardships, seems so much simpler than the fast, crazy lives we lead now.

Kin is comfort food in the form of a book.
If you love Maeve Binchy you will love this book!

Two of the highest praises one can give a book are
1. You can’t put the book
2. You want to read more by the same author.
Both were true for me after I read Lesley Crewe’s Kin.

So, grab a cuppa tea, sit back and enjoy!

Kin is available in local bookstores, or online through Nimbus or Amazon.

Find out more about Lesley Crewe on her website.