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Margaret Atwood is Canada’s most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Alias Grace, Cat’s Eye, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and The Handmaid’s Tale, which won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General’s Award, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and made into a major film. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter.
‘A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific…I don’t think I have ever been so thrilled…This, surely is as far as a novel can go’ Julie Myerson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
‘Brilliant…Atwood’s prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin’ Hilary Mantel ‘Margaret Atwood is to be congratulated’ Anita Brookner, SPECTATOR ‘The outstanding novelist of our age’ Peter Kemp, SUNDAY TIMES
‘Oh brilliant! I cannot rave enough…with its explosive mixture of sex, murder and class conflict, ALIAS GRACE is an absolute winner’ Val Hennessey, DAILY MAIL
‘One of the best modern novels I’ve come acrosss…written with such compelling intimacy that at times it is hard not to feel one is reading a memoir written exclusively for oneself.’ THE WEEK
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