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Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition – and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

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'A stunning collection.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'Sheer wizardry, a rich fusion of the ordinary experience made brilliant by symbol, image, and allusion.' -- Los Angeles Times 'Deft, sardonic: quintessential Atwood.' -- Globe and Mail

'An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women.' -- The Times 'The mind revealed in this collection of short stories is acutely perceptive, in love with language and capable of seeing significant connections between apparently disparate circumstances.' -- Evening Standard 'If anyone has better insight into women and their central problem - men - than Margaret Atwood, and can voice them with as much wit, impact and grace, then they haven't started writing yet.' -- Globe and Mail 'Margaret Atwood's stories are fierce parables about the horror of city life and the power politics of relationships. The fierceness filters insidiously through the leisurely realism of her domestic interiors, clothes, meals, weather ... A remarkable collection.' -- The Sunday Times

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Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her newest novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood’s work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Laurel Lefkow is one of the top US voices in the UK. She is a regular on BBC Radio 4 in radio plays, narrating the Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime. She has won awards for her audiobooks including Best Female Narrator of the Year. Laurel has voiced numerous computer games including main roles in Alien vs Predator, and is the voice of Ripley in Audible's Original Drama Alien: Sea of Sorrows. Recent film and television credits include Black Mirror, The Diplomat, Absentia and the films Fair Play and Misbehaviour. Laurel lives in London with her two daughters.

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