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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has two new books coming out from Canada’s largest publisher.
Penguin Random House Canada announced the projects on Thursday.
Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other is to be published in spring 2024.
The publisher describes it as an inspirational self-discovery and wellness book for adults featuring exclusive interviews with top psychologists, scientists and thought leaders.
“The book explores the importance of acceptance, compassion, empowerment and self-knowledge for better emotional literacy, and for our individual and collective mental health,” said a statement from the publisher.
The book, said the statement, “features deeply personal stories of the author’s own growth and transformation.”
In an Instagram posting on Thursday, Ms. Gregoire Trudeau said she had been writing the book for a year.
“Writing has always been a labour of love for me, and I had the opportunity to collaborate with amazing partners and experts to learn more about my favourite universal topic: why we think, feel and act the way we do as human beings,” Ms. Gregoire-Trudeau wrote.
Penguin Random House Canada also said their Tundra Book Group children’s publishing division will publish a picture book by the author in 2025.
“The book is intended to encourage kids to move, explore and be as connected to the great outdoors as they are to their inner emotional landscape,” said the publisher.
Few other spouses of prime ministers have written books. Ms. Gregoire Trudeau’s mother-in-law, Margaret Trudeau wrote a memoir in 1979, two years after separating from Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Maureen McTeer, the spouse of Joe Clark, wrote three books after Mr. Clark was no longer prime minister.
