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.
A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist
*Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER*
Compulsively readable
*Daily Telegraph*
Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit
*Independent*
The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science
fiction and a profoundly felt moral story
*Angela Carter*
Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic
*The Listener*
The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling
*Sunday Times*
Powerful...admirable
*Time Out*
It's hard to believe it is 25 years since it was first published,
but its freshness, its anger and its disciplined, taut prose have
grown more admirable in the intervening years... Atwood's novel was
an ingenious enterprise that showed, with out hysteria, the real
dangers to women of closing their eyes to patriarchal
oppression
*Independent on Sunday*
Turned 25 this year and...worth re-reading. As you grow, such books
grow with you
*The Times, Christmas round up*
Fiercely political and bleak, yet witting and wise...this novel
seems ever more vital in the present day
*Observer*
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