Women Talking (2019 Edition)

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.

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.

This beautiful battle cry of a novel is in urgent conversation with the contemporary moment.

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.

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.

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.