Recipe for a Good Life

“Reading Recipe For a Good Life was like being on the receiving end of an enormous hug just when you need it most. Bursting at the seams with heart and humour, this book is a most glorious love letter to the amazing women of rural Cape Breton. I now want to get a time machine and move to South Head Road!”

– Bianca Marais, bestselling author of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

“Lesley Crewe has done it again! Recipe for a Good Life absolutely delivers, with vivid characters, and plenty of moments both hilarious and touching. Lesley’s writing with lots of love, here, and it shows.”

– Stephanie Domet, Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women, Fallsy Downsies

“Fans of the delightful Lesley Crewe know that she can skillfully make you weep or laugh at the drop of a noun. In her latest novel, Recipe for a Good Life, she weaves loneliness like silk into the soul of a person with a stitch of humour. This clever author knows that the heart can teach you more than you will ever teach it.”

– Beatrice MacNeil, bestselling author of Where White Horses Gallop

“I fell arse over tea kettle in love with the characters in this book, and now find myself missing them on a daily basis. That’s the sign of a good story!”

– Nancy Regan, bestselling author of From Showing Off to Showing UP

“Recipe for a Good Life is Notting Hill meets Cape Breton – if Julia Roberts was a bestselling author and Hugh Grant a clandestine baker instead of a bookseller. Kitty steps out of her cosmopolitan life in Mad Menera-Montreal to the world of South Head, Cape Breton, where telephones are still using the Party Line (catnip for the local gossip). It’s a life-changing writing retreat for a woman stagnating in her work and marriage. With Crewe’s signature wit and a cast of cheeky characters, lolloping dogs and heaps of food, this is a warm hug of a book. You’ll wish you could go for a stroll along the beach with Walrus and the dogs or bum a cigarette from Gaynor over a literary lunch.”

– Nicola Davison, award-winning author of In the Wake and Decoding Dot Grey

Lesley Crewe is the Globe and Mail – bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Nosy Parker, which was named one of Indigo’s Top 100 Books of 2022, The Spoon Stealer, longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which was adapted into an award-winning feature film. She has also published two collections of essays, the Leacock — longlisted Are You Kidding Me?! and I Kid You Not! Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia.