About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.

Reviews

A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific...I don't think I have ever been so thrilled...This, surely is as far as a novel can go - Julie Myerson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYBrilliant...Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin - Hilary MantelMargaret Atwood is to be congratulated - Anita Brookner, SPECTATORThe outstanding novelist of our age - Peter Kemp, SUNDAY TIMES