And then we turned around and started going back toward it, ominously close in many parts of the world. "But then I thought, what if somebody else were telling the story? And what if it were 15 or 16 years later? And it was also time, because for a while we thought we were moving away from The Handmaid's Tale.
"People had been asking me to write a sequel for a long time, and I always said no, because I thought they meant the continuation of the story of Offred which I couldn't do," she says. The new book is The Testaments, and it returns us, 15 years later, to the fictional totalitarian theocracy of Gilead, with its Handmaids, Marthas, Wives, Commanders and Aunts.Ītwood says it just seemed like the time for a sequel. The final act of that book, published in 1985, saw its unnamed heroine Offred (at least, that wasn't her real name), step off the pages and into the unknown.
Margaret Atwood has written a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale - that sentence alone will move millions of readers to buy the book ASAP. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Testaments Subtitle The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale Author Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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