The Testaments by Margaret Atwood review – hints of a happy ending

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Atwood’s angry, pacy sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale admits a ray of light into Gilead’s toxic world

Argentinian activists in favour of the legalisation of abortion disguised as characters from The Handmaid’s Tale. Photograph: Alejandro Pagni/AFP/Getty Imagesback when it first appeared in 1985 will remember the shock of a novel that felt both claustrophobically precise and shatteringly prescient.

 

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Hmm... I enjoyed the book years ago. I’m enjoying the TV series now. But I’ve been happy to keep them in their separate places. I’m disappointed to learn of this book and the cross-pollination of ideas, which feels to me like a sellout and money grab by Atwood.

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