Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to her best-selling dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale that is set to be published next year.
The 79-year-old Canadian author tweeted that the book, titled The Testaments, will be set 15 years after the final scene of the original novel from 1985.
Three female characters will narrate the new story, which is inspired by questions readers have asked about the inner workings of the fictional Gilead state, as well as “the world we’ve been living in,” Atwood said.
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The original book is written from the perspective of the protagonist, Offred, a woman living in a Christian military dictatorship in the United States.
It has regained prominence after a popular TV series based on the book was released by streaming service Hulu in 2017.
“The Testaments” will be published on September 10, 2019.
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Oh yay! All the love and impatience for this!!!
Amazing that this book has lead to a hit TV series so many years after it was first published and Atwood writing the sequel at 79! This is the kind of thing that should be #goals all over social media.
It absolutely should be! Plus Alias Grace, fingers crossed some (if not all, is that being too greedy?) more of her books are adapted.
There's a series of Alias Grace on Netflix, if you're interested. I really enjoyed it.
Fingers crossed it goes better than the To Kill A Mockingbird sequel.
I loved it too!