Aunt Lydia of TheTestaments is very different to Aunt Lydia of TheHandmaidsTale – we spoke to Ann Dowd, who narrates the audiobook, and had a LOT to say about it. PenguinUKBooks MargaretAtwood
, and the havoc it’s wreaking – that governments are choosing to ignore it, to do nothing to stop it, and instead increase the potential for damage. It’s so alarming.
Recalling how she felt when she put her chapters down, Dowd adds: “I wanted to respond to Atwood immediately because the experience was unlike anything I had ever gone through, and I was completely privileged to have done so. Then I thought, ‘I can’t sit there and tell her I haven’t read the novel, I’ll sound like an idiot’.
“It was a dream come true,” she says, “but it isn’t what I particularly expected in terms of how Lydia came to sign on for Gilead. I somehow thought of her as a huge believer – someone who met for the early meetings of Gilead, and was right there in the front row ready to jump in. But that’s not the case. And when you see the vulnerability of this person, some of the walls fall away.
“The thing is, as you grow older, things happen that give your past decisions some perspective,” she notes. “You can let go of the part of your brain that says, ‘Well, I did it because I had to’, and suddenly other options come into play. So how do you react? How do you plan to end your life? What do you want to be remembered for?”In Atwood’s original novel, we only ever learn about the senior Aunt through narrator Offred’s own recollections.
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