The Testaments

itemprop="description" data-height="230"> The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Offred?s future at the end of The Handmaid?s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her ? freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood?s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. ?Dear Readers: Everything you?ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we?ve been living in.? Margaret Atwood show more WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.   More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.   Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.   As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.   ‘A savage and beautiful novel, and it speaks to us today, all around the world, with particular conviction and power… The bar is set particularly high for Atwood and she soars over it’ - Peter Florence, Booker Prize Chair of Judges