{"product_id":"9780008722883","title":"A Truce That Is Not Peace","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Miriam Toews\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eNorth America\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 16 July 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 129mm | 140g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e MARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR, Irish Times and LitHub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD, author of You Are Not Alone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I can’t get enough of Miriam’s Toews’ writing’ NINA STIBBE, author of Went to London, Took the Dog\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Beautiful, hilarious, devastating’ PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Blue Hour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Brilliant … it broke my heart in the best of ways’ SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w\/c 06\/09\/2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miriam Toews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58288408789317,"sku":"9780008722883","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780008722883.jpg?v=1781600441","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780008722883","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}