The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Sep 2019 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, and Tantoo Cardinal

About this audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
 
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia.  Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.
 
With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

Ratings and reviews

The book was fantastic! After 35 years of the handmaidens tale. Margaret Atwood took the lives of three women and developed them and to the successful stories she did. We find the lives of these three women which I will not name because it will ruin the story into a sense of completion. For all people who picked up the handmaidens tale and who have been watching Hulu's the handmaidens Tale this combines both Worlds. This is a must read for everyone who is fascinated handmaid's tail.

I don't have the audio book but I have been watching Hand maids tale.This turned out to be a favorite of mine I can't stop watching.. Too know that there is another book coming out I'm sure to buy it books have more detail than movies but the shows r good to watch when u have no time to read the books..

As a fan of the Handmaid's tale, I wanted to know more. Thankful that Ms. Atwood has done the sequel so we shall all knows what happened. Thank you.

About the author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.
 
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.