LESLIE BRADFORD-SCOTT
About Leslie Bradford-Scott
Leslie is a Canadian author who writes about family secrets, reinvention, and the long aftershocks of the past. She left school young, raised children, sold cars to pay the bills, and built a personal-care company from a laundry room that grew into a multimillion-dollar business. And through it all, she wrote, late at night, in the margins, in between everything else. Writing was the one constant when everything else changed. Eventually, it became the work.
The Story Behind The Liar’s Playbook
My memoir combines two investigations:
First, I examine my father’s alleged connections to a secret life as an informant for the United States government.
Second, I explore how family myths echo across generations — shaping who we become, what we believe, and which stories we cling to when the truth feels too dangerous to face.
It digs into the lies we’re raised with, the ones we tell ourselves to survive, and what happens when those narratives collide.
After building Walton Wood Farm from a desperate single mother’s escape fantasy into an international brand — cold-calling gift shops with fifty-pound cases of bath salts and nearly going bankrupt more than once — I thought I understood reinvention.
Then my mother handed me my father’s hidden manuscript.
Turns out, some stories demand to be told whether you’re ready or not.
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Life Beyond the Page
When I’m not working on my next writing project, you’ll find me:
playing guitar
kayaking & swimming
mountain biking
travelling
spending time with my family
cross-country skiing
Welcome to my world, where even the memoir comes with an unreliable narrator — because sometimes that’s the only honest way to tell the truth.