Are You Kidding Me?

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For the first time bestselling novelist columnist and humorist Lesley Crewe's finest newspaper columns are collected in one place.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Not merely razor sharp Crewe's wit is also ocean wide taking in everything from the humiliations of breast pumping to the indignities of aging from the frantic excess of holiday preparations to the homey irritations of a long marriage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As precise in her observations as Jane Austen and as fractious on occasion as Oscar the Grouch Crewe also has a sweet tender centre taking us from a hearty laugh to a good cry in a single paragraph. Readers will relate to Crewe's ache at missing her mom her nostalgia for her childhood her frustrations at raising teenagers and her impatience for terrible parking lot etiquette in equal measure. The book spans sixteen years' worth of columns for </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Cape Bretoner Magazine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cahoots Magazine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Chronicle Herald</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Are You Kidding Me?! </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a side-splitting heartwarming Cape Breton-flavoured celebration of the little things.</span></p>