Book of Lives: The must-read Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Handmaid’s Tale
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'Fat and satisfying' Observer
'I loved it' Dua Lipa
'Deliciously naughty' iNews
'Beautifully told' Woman & Home
'Spellbinding' FT
Book of the Year Guardian, Financial Times, Observer, Belfast Telegraph
Books, feminism, school bullies, Hollywood stars, bears, The Handmaid's Tale, vengeance, love, creativity, death – welcome to Margaret Atwood's world.
With her trademark wit, infamous wisdom and frankly astonishing recall, the creative icon takes us on a tour of her life so far and shows how it’s fed her writing. From her unfettered childhood in the wild forests of northern Quebec, to 1980s Berlin where the seeds of The Handmaid’s Tale were sown and on to her life today on the global cultural stage, settle into your ringside seat and witness a remarkable life in extraordinary times.
‘One of the most deliciously engaging memoirs of the decade’ Financial Times
‘Extraordinary . . . the writing, plus drawing and photos, will delight’ Grazia
‘Nerdy brainiac, waifish poet, Medusa-eyed feminist, uncanny prophet’ Guardian
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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 shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories; and Book of Lives, her memoir.
Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and 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. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
