03863cam a2200697 4500 2717615585 TxAuBib 20260326120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781771088824 1771088826 B08CJTF5DQ Amazon 8bd03726-a716-46df-9fcb-f1e1e69e4d14 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5654935 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Crewe, Lesley. The Spoon Stealer [Libby eBook]. Vagrant Press, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Human-animal relationships. Inheritance and succession. the incredible dog show. the First World War. Winston Churchill. historical novels. family secrets. Stark reality. Family Saga . Mary Poppins. nova scotian. family life. 1970s sagas. Homecoming. Cary Grant. love spoon. Liverpool. post wwii. vagrants. Atlantic. Cornwall. families. parental. steelers. emmeline. smarmies. sibling. britain. England. Lesley. Europe. Crewe. Vera. WWI. " 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. ". Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-25 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8bd03726-a716-46df-9fcb-f1e1e69e4d14&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8bd03726-a716-46df-9fcb-f1e1e69e4d14&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)