The 'riotous, insanely readable' new novel from the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The
Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam
trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in
2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one
bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published
Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade; in 2022
Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times
bestseller; and in 2023, Old Babes in the Wood, a collection of
short stories, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award
for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime
Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she
was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for
services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist,
illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in
Toronto, Canada.
Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun... The novel
builds to a fantastic climax of dark calamity... There is so much
exuberance and heart and wonder in this novel that the only thing I
want to happen next is for Atwood to rewrite the whole of
Shakespeare. (No offence, Will.)
*Observer*
A triumph... The book illuminates the breadth and depth of the
whole play. The troupe's workshops on it fizz with perception as
Atwood transmits the pleasurable buzz of exploring a literary
masterpiece. There won't be a more glowing tribute to Shakespeare
in his 400th anniversary year
*Sunday Times*
Atwood reinterprets the play as a heartbreaking novel, told in
gorgeous yet economical prose
*New York Times Book Review*
Surpassingly brilliant... without question the cleverest
"neo-Shakespearean novel" I have ever read... the learning and the
critical analysis are worn exceptionally lightly, always
subordinated to wit, invention, characterisation and slick twists
of plot... wonderfully ingenious
*The Times*
An absolute triumph... ravishing... I am not ashamed to say that I
didn't just have a lump in my throat by the end of Hag-Seed, I had
tears on the fringed curtains of mine eyes
*Scotland on Sunday*
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