Lesley Crewe

Lesley grew up in Montreal, QC. After graduating from Concordia University with a degree in English and Education, she and her hubby settled down in Homeville, Cape Breton and raised a family.

From 2000-2005, Lesley was a features writer and columnist (Home Fires) for Cape Bretoner Magazine, and from 2005-2009, a columnist (Lesley's Letters) with the on-line magazine, Cahoots.

In 2005 her first novel, Relative Happiness, was published by Vagrant Press, the fiction imprint of Nimbus Publishing. It was and instant bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. She has since written seven novels, with an eighth due out in fall 2015.