Kin -- Lesley Crewe

<p>Traditions, created, and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms.</p><p>In <em>Kin</em>, 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.</p><p>Brimming with humour and poignancy, <em>Kin</em> is a celebration of the heartbreaking, maddening joy that is family.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Lesley Crewe<br><b>Publisher:</b> Nimbus Publishing (CN)<br><b>Published:</b> 09/04/2012<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.35lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.27h x 6.06w x 1.01d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781551099224<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Lesley Crewe is the author of several novels, including <i>Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Chloe Sparrow, Kin, </i> and <i>Relative Happiness</i>, which has been adapted into a feature film. Previously a columnist and freelance writer, Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com.</p><p></p>