Penguin Books Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale cene

** The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller **

Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prizewinning sequel The Testaments.

Now an awardwinning TV series starring Elisabeth Moss

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford her assigned name, Offred, means of Fred. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her prerevolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.

Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.

A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist Bernadine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other

This novel seems ever more vital in the present day Observer

Read The Testaments, the Booker Prizewinning sequel to The Handmaids Tale, today!