{"product_id":"nosy-parker","title":"Nosy Parker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLesley Crewe \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal \u0026amp; features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAudrey 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBalancing 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nimbus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49216758972702,"sku":"9781774710425","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/3584\/9246\/files\/BNCImageAPI-2024-09-30T151248.008.jpg?v=1727723599","url":"https:\/\/www.cedarcanoebooks.com\/products\/nosy-parker","provider":"Cedar Canoe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}