The Testaments
download the free PDF copy of The Testaments book or read it from here. The Testaments”, is the second segment to Margaret Atwood’s 1985, “The Handmaid’s Tale”. The narrative picks up 15 years later and is told from the viewpoints of three different women: Aunt Lydia, a character from the first book, and two new characters, Agnes and Daisy, who reside in Gilead and Canada, respectively.
The book received critical acclaim, sharing the 2019 Booker Prize with Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other”. It was also the top pick in the ‘Best Fiction’ category of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019.
About the Author
Started as a poet and has never entirely stopped, which is audible in the sentences even in the most plot-driven books. The Handmaid’s Tale arrived in 1985 and she has said repeatedly that she put nothing in it that had not already happened somewhere, to…
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