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Margaret Atwood's powerful and hugely anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood's powerful and hugely anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, now shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Today: Agnes gets an unwelcome lesson in sex and death.

Margaret Atwood's brilliant and long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

In The Testaments, set fifteen years after the events of Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, the testimonies of three women bring the story to a dramatic conclusion. Today we continue with Agnes’ story – still in shock from the discovery that her mother was a Handmaid, Agnes is given a very unwelcome lesson in sex and death...

Writer: Margaret Atwood 
Reader: Katherine Press
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett

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Margaret Atwood's powerful and hugely-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood's powerful and hugely-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale picks up 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown.

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