A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw.
Review
'Don't miss this one! This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.' - Margaret Atwood
'Women Talking is an astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I've read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come.' - Lauren Groff
Review
Don't miss this one! This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale. -- Margaret Atwood
Women Talking is an astonishment, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I've read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come. -- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
What a beautiful thing - thoughtful but red-blooded with a cast of powerful personalities, and every word from them so deeply felt. It's a considerable achievement to have written so sensitively and yet so compellingly about such brutal crimes. It's a novel for the times. -- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
Miriam Toews has written a modern classic as real and warm and terrifying as a pail of fresh blood. It's a perfect work of artthat will leave you ill with awe. -- Catherine Lacey, author of The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing
Toews, who made her name with the wry autobiographical novel All My Puny Sorrows, knows how to extract humour from horror while still producing a work of resonance and power . . . Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr - The Times
This beautiful battle cry of a novel is in urgent conversation with the contemporary moment. - Financial Times
Brave and thoughtful . . . The improbable, almost magical result creates something redemptive from a subject that seems anything but. - Observer
If you've been hooked on The Handmaid's Tale, here's a new book that comes Margaret Atwood-recommended . . . Profound, affecting stuff. -- Stella Loves - Sunday Telegraph
Book Description
Soon to be a major motion picture, Women Talking is a profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Fight Night and All My Puny Sorrows.
About the Author
Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, All My Puny Sorrows and Women Talking and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.