Margaret Atwood’s spellbinding sequel to The Handmaid's Tale was inspired by readers’ responses to the first book and ‘the world we’ve been living in’
Cat's Eye
Written by Margaret Atwood
- Shortlisted
- The Booker Prize 1989
- Published by Bloomsbury
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In Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel, an artist returning to her home city is consumed by images of the lavish cruelties she endured there as a child
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayal and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the world-renowned author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays
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