These Letters End in Tears

Shortlisted for The Book of The Year 2025 at The British Book Awards
Xaviere writes with care and love. A beautiful story spanning years, is delicately told making it impossible to hold back the tears that surged forward. Xaviere is an author who weaves words together in such a way that they haunt you long after, you’ve read the last page. A gorgeous and heart wrenching debut. – Kelechi Okafor
Xaviere has woven together a needed story about love and how that love gets torn apart by homophobia. In lovely prose and an intimate epistolary style, we follow Bessem’s journey in finding her long-lost love. – Soraya Palmer
An engaging debut of a memorable forbidden love beautifully narrated by one of the voices to watch. – Zukiswa Wanner
A tender, moving portrait of forbidden desire. In deft, clear prose, Xaviere presents us with the devastating and yet redemptive power of love. – Chukwuebuka Ibeh
An urgent and devastating story about the cost of living in a place that refuses to recognize your humanity. With vivid and textured prose, Xaviere weaves a tale readers will not soon forget. – Soon Wiley
Musih Tedji Xaviere’s debut novel These Letters End In Tears is a beautifully tender, heartfelt story about love and the devastating consequences of a world that is not yet all accepting. Her prose is deft and delicate, pulling you quickly in and holding you, as though you were living it. – JJ Bola
A gut punch of a novel. Every now and then one story will consume every part of you and this will do it … A beautiful and wrenching story. – Adam Vitcavage
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A gut punch of a novel. Every now and then one story will consume every part of you and this will do it … A beautiful and wrenching story. – —Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful
A tender, moving portrait of forbidden desire. In deft, clear prose, Xaviere presents us with the devastating and yet redemptive power of love. – —Chukwuebuka Ibeh, author of Blessings
“Musih Tedji Xaviere’s debut novel These Letters End In Tears is a beautifully tender, heartfelt story about love and the devastating consequences of a world that is not yet all accepting. Her prose is deft and delicate, pulling you quickly in and holding you, as though you were living it.”
An engaging debut of a memorable forbidden love beautifully narrated by one of the voices to watch. – —Zukiswa Wanner, author of The Madams
“Xaviere has woven together a needed story about love and how that love gets torn apart by homophobia. In lovely prose and an intimate epistolary style, we follow Bessem’s journey in finding her long-lost love.” – —Soraya Palmer, author of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
“An urgent and devastating story about the cost of living in a place that refuses to recognize your humanity. With vivid and textured prose, Xaviere weaves a tale readers will not soon forget.” – —Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart

Musih Tedji Xaviere is a UK-based Cameroonian author and activist. She is an alumna of the Goethe-Institut, the Moth, and the African Women Development Fund. Musih is the winner of the Pontas and JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize. These Letters End in Tears is her debut novel and has been translated into Italian, Dutch, and Danish.

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