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Read 5,354 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may…

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is the sequel to the famous books of all times, The Handmaid’s Tale.

**THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE** In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book…

Margaret Atwood's "The Year of the Flood" is filled with rotting carcasses, gangrenous wounds and unspeakable violence. It's also prodigiously imaginative and outrageously funny.

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The author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments" unpacks the way "all speculative fiction writers are writing about the present and the past."

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Based on a true case from 1843, the story focuses on Grace Marks, a young woman who at the age of 16, was convicted of the murders of her employer, Mr. Kinnear, and a fellow housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermott, was also employed in Kinnear’s home. The two were arrested in a hotel not long after the murders, wearing the victim’s clothes and carrying valuable items stolen from the home. Grace insists she has no memory of the key events.Now, eight years later…

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Margaret Atwood, The writer of great intelligence and optimism