# A Truce That Is Not Peace: The new memoir from the internationally bestselling author of Women Talking (Hardcover)

'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY

'This is memoir perfection … I adored it' CARIAD LLOYD

'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights' NEW YORK TIMES

'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety … remarkable’ CELIA PAUL

'Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ SHARLENE TEO

The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life.

‘Why do you write?’ the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews – all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser – surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.

A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; wrenching and joyful – this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.

'\[Toews\] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour’ OBSERVER

'Nothing short of a masterpiece’ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG

‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD

## Details

- **Price:** 12.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Somiibooks
- **Tags:** All Books, gift-box, Main Non-Fiction, Self Help

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> Updated: 2026-05-31