By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks.

Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching.

So intimate it seems to be wri...

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

Opgevoed door onafhankelijke, wetenschappelijk ingestelde ouders (vader entomoloog, moeder diëtiste), bracht Margaret Atwood het grootste deel van haar jeugd door in de wilde bossen van Noord-Québec. Haar jeugd was vrij en nomadisch, soms eenzaam, maar ook spannend en schitterend.

Vanuit dit onconventionele begin ontvouwt Atwood het verhaal van haar leven, waarbij ze eigen wezenlijke ervaringen verbindt met de boeken die ons literaire landschap hebben gevormd, van het wrede jaar dat Kattenoo...