Home from the Vinyl Cafe

Welcome back to the Vinyl Cafe and to the wonderful, quirky world of its proprietor and his family and friends. Home from the Vinyl Cafe takes us into a year in the life of Dave, Morley, Stephanie and Sam as they bump and stumble from one Christmas fiasco (Dave's disastrous yet inspired attempts to cook a turkey) to the next (Dave and Sam wreak havoc at Polly Anderson's annual Christmas soirée). In between, we learn of Dave and Morley's first meeting, on ice, and Stephanie’s own early adventures in love. We hear of Dave | and Morley’s sometimes misguided, but | always heartfelt, efforts at parenting (Dave | finds out the hard way that bringing frogs to school is not a great idea and that having a children’s birthday party is only slightly less challenging than hosting the Olympics). Whether it's sending the kids | | to camp‚ putting up the Christmas lights | or losing control at the grocery store, in the hands of master storyteller Stuart MeLean, everyday events are seen for all their challenges and hilarious possibilities. Warm, witty and moving, these are stories | that will walk right into your life and make themselves at home. “The stories in Home from the Vinyl Cafe first appeared on Stuart McLean's immensely popular CBC radio progam “The Vinyl Cafe” and have been featured in the cross-country “Vinyl Cafe Road Show.” Stuart McLean is the bestselling author of 7he Morningside World of Stuart McLean, Welcome Home: Travels in Smalltown Canada and Stories from the Vinyl Cafe. He is also the editor of When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories. He currently hosts CBC radio's “The Vinyl Cafe” and is a journalism professor at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. Cover illustration ‘by Wesley Bates Cover design by Cathy Maclean