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Winner from the Booker Award 2019.

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is read by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard and Mae Whitman with Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal and Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is today’s classic. Today she brings the iconic story to a dramatic bottom line with this riveting sequel.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime from the Republic of Gilead maintains about The Testaments: Champion OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 its grasp in power, but there are signs it really is beginning to rot from within. As of this crucial second, the lives of three radically different females converge, with possibly explosive results.

Two have become up as part of the first generation to arrive old in the new purchase. The testimonies of these two young females are joined by a third tone of voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless build up and deployment of secrets.

As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she starts up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she actually is, and what lengths she will go for what she believes.

‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its own inner workings may be the inspiration because of this reserve. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been surviving in.’ Margaret Atwood

‘The literary event of the entire year.’ Guardian

‘A savage and beautiful book, and it speaks to us today, all over the world, with particular conviction and power… The pub is set particularly high for Atwood and she soars over it’ Peter Florence, Booker Prize Seat of Judges, Guardian