Fans of the The Handmaid's Tale will be pleased to hear that Canadian author Margaret Atwood has just confirmed she is writing a sequel to the ground-breaking dystopian novel.
Called The Testaments, it is set 15 years after Offred's last scene and will be published next year.
The Canadian novelist confirmed the news today through a tweet, in which she wrote:
"Yes indeed to those who asked: I’m writing a sequel to The #HandmaidsTale. #TheTestaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene and is narrated by three female characters. It will be published in Sept 2019."
Set in the near future, The Handmaid's Tale depicts a disturbing patriarchal society, the fictional world of Gilead, where women are kept as child-bearing slaves.
The book won several awards after it was published in 1985, including the Booker Prize, and was adapted into a film in 1990 and an opera in 2000. More recently, it was turned into a hit TV series, the first episodes of which aired in 2017.
