Press Reviews

• LISTENER

  Not since Graham Greene or William Golding has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood's power games are played, exquisitely, by little girls

• THE TIMES

  Irrestistible...This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it

• THE WEEK

  Atwood's taut and exquisite use of language makes all her books irresistable...

• - Chris Kellett, From 500 Great Books by Women, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW

  Margaret Atwood charts the psychological process of memory as compulsion and memory as a healing act through the character of Elaine Risley, an artist who returns to her home town of Toronto for a retrospective of her work. Elaine's visit triggers though

• Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist

  I read this when I was about sixteen and remember its menace. It is about the potential toxicity in female friendships, which is a contentious issue. Atwood is never pigeonholed, she's wry and has a poet's eye

• Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist

  I read this when I was about sixteen and remember its menace. It is about the potential toxicity in female friendships, which is a contentious issue. Atwood is never pigeonholed, she's wry and has a poet's eye