In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades- What happened to Offred?
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The
Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam
trilogy. Her 1985 classic The Handmaid's Tale was followed in 2019
by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one
bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent
publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat;
Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the
Wood, a volume of short stories.
Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and
has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for
Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace
Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement
Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a
cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She
lives in Toronto, Canada.
Thrilling and blistering
*Daily Telegraph*
An incredible follow-up
*the Sun, *Pick of the Week**
Gripping, pacy and beautifully written
*Guardian*
Finding hope in a hopeless place, this is everything The Handmaid’s
Tale fans wanted and more. Prepare to hold your breath throughout,
and to cry real tears at the end. My book of the year
*Stylist*
The Testaments is Atwood at her best, in its mixture of generosity,
insight and control. The prose is adroit, direct, beautifully
turned. All over the reading world, the history books are being
opened to the next blank page and Atwood’s name is written at the
top of it. To read this book is to feel the world turning
*Guardian*
I gobbled it down... Atwood has an incredible intellectual
nimbleness that challenges us constantly and poses the question
that lies like a pearl inside the shell of this frighteningly
readable novel, "Before you sit in judgement, how would you behave
in Gilead?"
*Sunday Telegraph*
No one needs another recommendation for The Testaments and still I
have to say how thrilling it is when a book manages to exceed all
expectations. How did she manage to make darkness feel so
effortless? How did she think to inject humour where no humour
should exist? Because she’s Margaret Atwood, and she can do
anything
*Ann Patchett*
A cracker: urgent, moving and as tense as any thriller... there's a
darkly rebellious humour, ingenious wordplay and, of course,
chillingly timely warnings. Atwood is long overdue a Nobel
*Mail on Sunday*
At its heart, this gripping novel is a rallying call for action...
In Atwood's world, resistance is never futile
*Daily Express*
The must-read novel of the year -- a perfect gift for bookworms and
fans of the TV series
*Sunday Telegraph*
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