{"product_id":"nosy-parker","title":"Nosy Parker","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail bestselling 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Nimbus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51627749540142,"sku":"9781774710425","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9781774710425.jpg?v=1768324362","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/nosy-parker","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}