The books are out, and the reviews are in and glowing for Margaret Atwood's The Testaments
| Posted on 10 hours agohave been waiting for its sequel for a long time – more than 30 years, in fact. This week, the world held its breath as one organisation after another broke the strict embargo on the follow-up novel,Slated for release on 10 September, happy Amazon shoppers posted pictures of their shiny new copies, shipped a week before they were supposed to be, to social media. Independent bookshops are, understandably, pretty furious.
ANYWAY. Publisher Penguin Random House has attributed the slip to ‘a retailer error which has now been rectified’ – but, rectified or not, the cat’s out of the bag. Already shortlisted for the Booker Prize, reviews ofis set in the same universe as, around 15 years after we leave Offred in Gilead, and it’s narrated by three different women. Lydia, one of the Aunts entrusted with indoctrinating Handmaids and Wives, is introduced as a founding force of Gilead’s strict ‘space for women’.
Life for children in Gilead is described as variously cosseted and restrictive – and certainly suffused with the misogynist moral code fans will recognise.
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