As Truly is a haunting and lyrical testament to survival, loss, and the indelible scars of war. At dawn on a July morning in 1974, Harita, Maro, and Yiannoula’s lives are shattered as Turkish forces invade Kyreneia, Cyprus, and their peaceful orchards are turned into battlefields. With children in their arms and grief etched into every breath, the three sisters flee into a world unrecognisable—one filled with gunfire, burning earth, and unanswered prayers. Thirty years later, Harita meets Sultana, a Turkish-Cypriot woman who also lost members of her family in the same conflict. In a moment that transcends history and politics, the two women embrace—bound by shared pain and the quiet resilience of those left behind. It is a symbolic and powerful gesture of humanity, where sorrow finds reflection in the eyes of the so-called ‘other’, and healing begins not in forgetting, but in recognising each other’s grief. Told through vivid, heart-wrenching scenes, the novel follows the sisters as they search for safety, mourn their missing, and eventually confront the unthinkable: the return of their loved ones’ remains from shallow graves. United by silence and sorrow, they become living testaments of collective memory and resistance. As Truly is not just a story of war—it is a requiem for what was lost, and a quiet, powerful song for those who remember