The Spoon Stealer

De Marque · Narrated by Shelley Thompson
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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.
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 w...

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Lesley Crewe is the author of Her Mother’s Daughter, Hit and Mrs., Ava Comes Home, Shoot Me, and Relative Happiness, which was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. Previously a freelance writer and columnist for Cape Bretoner magazine, she currently writes a column for Cahoots online magazine. Born in Montreal, Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia.

Shelley Thompson/Rusty Tractor Productions.Writer/Director/Producer/Actor Shelley Thompson is based in Wolfville, in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia). Trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), UK; Canadian Film Centre, Toronto; Women In the Directors Chair, Vancouver; the Writers Lab, NYC; and most recently, the Whistler Film Festival’s Producer’s Lab. Her recent screen credits include CBC TV’s Moonshine, CTV’s Sullivan’s Crossing, webseries Tokens, and Bell TV1 King and Pawn. Thompson is a multiple ACTRA/Gemini winner for roles in Trailer Park Boys, feature films Splinters (Thom Fitzgerald) and The Child Remains (Michael Melski). Thompson's first Feature (Writer/Director), Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor, is presently streaming on Amazon Prime in Canada. A doc series Translations is planned to shoot in May 2023. Her first novel, Roar, was published with Vagrant Press in October 2023. She is the producer—through her production company, Rusty Tractor Productions—of audiobooks Roar (Thompson) and The Spoon Stealer (Lesley Crewe), both to be found on audible.ca, among other platforms.

Lesley Crewe is the author of Her Mother’s Daughter, Hit and Mrs., Ava Comes Home, Shoot Me, and Relative Happiness, which was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. Previously a freelance writer and columnist for Cape Bretoner magazine, she currently writes a column for C...

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