The Testaments (TV Tie-in): A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Sep 2019 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, and Tantoo Cardinal
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A gripping return to Gilead, The Testaments exposes the regime’s inner decay through the intersecting stories of three women whose choices could ignite its downfall.
Now a Hulu Original series starring Ann Dowd, reprising her role as Aunt Lydia, Chase Infiniti as Agnes, and Lucy Halliday as Daisy.
The Testaments can be read on its own or as a sequel 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 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 that of Aunt Lydia, whose 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.
Now a Hulu Original series starring Ann Dowd, reprising her role as Aunt Lydia, Chase Infiniti as Agnes, and Lucy Halliday as Daisy.
The Testaments can be read on its own or as a sequel 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 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 that of Aunt Lydia, whose 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.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A gripping return to Gilead, The Testaments exposes the regime’s inner decay through the intersecting stories of three women whose choices could ignite its downfall.
Now a Hulu Original series starring Ann Dowd, reprising her role as Au...
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Carrol Sous
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September 14, 2019
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.
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Tasha Wimberly
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October 17, 2026
I absolutely 💯 extremely so loved and inspired by two of June's very unique intelligent differences in her two different daughters who are very much around the same age however even though they come from inside June's tummy and have 2 different fathers Nick and Luke!They have had extremely different uprising so ugliest ones as to the uniform and the lavender violet colors are the world we are helping in!???my little princess Hannah and my little baby girl Nicole Wimberly.........
Eliecia Hale
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March 28, 2020
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.
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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. 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 America 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 lives in Toronto.
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, whic...
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