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 shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published
Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade; in 2022
Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times
bestseller; and in 2023, Old Babes in the Wood, a collection of
short stories, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.
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.
Vitality and virtuosity have been the hallmarks of Atwoods literary
career - and, as Old Babes in the Wood, published in her 84th year,
shows, triumphantly continue to be so... Mortality shadows the
book. Vivacity makes it shine
*Sunday Times*
If you consider yourself and Atwood fan and have only read her
novels: Get your act together. You've been missing out
*New York Times Book Review*
Atwood shows mastery of the short form . . . [The] stories unwrap
what TS Eliot called the gifts reserved for age. There are chips
and fragments of lives, full of sass and sadness
*Guardian*
A gripping read... Old Babes in the Wood is further evidence of a
writer in full possession of her powers. Atwood will never struggle
to find readers, but this collection really is worth their
attention
*Financial Times*
Atwood... is a brilliant and spiky storyteller who can seamlessly
turn big issues into page-turners... These are Atwood's most
personal tales so far
*Sunday Times*
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