It’s thirty-odd years after The Handmaid’s Tale, told by three women. Aunt Lydia, the most senior of the Aunts, who runs Ardua Hall and has spent years quietly compiling files on everybody who matters. Agnes, raised inside as a commander’s daughter, being prepared for marriage at thirteen. Daisy, a teenager in Toronto who finds out her life is not what she was told. The crux is Lydia. Atwood gives her a past as a family court judge, shows the day the regime took her, and lets her explain exactly what she traded and what she’s been building since. It won the Booker and it moves like a thriller.
The Testaments