Lorraine Candy

Sunday Times Best Seller: 'Mum What's Wrong with You? Podcaster: Postcards From Midlife. Ex EIC Cosmo, ELLE, Sunday Times Style. Cornish OW swim. Advisor @Tate

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The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood gives her most intimate interview yet ahead of her hotly anticipated new book, The Testaments https://t.co/Pr7uerl8XF (from X)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE AMAZON EDITORS’ PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2019 The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia.  Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways. With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.