BY THE BESTSELLING PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE 'Clara' she said 'do you
think I'm normal?' 'I'd say you're almost abnormally normal if you know what I mean.'
Marian is determinedly ordinary waiting to get married. She likes her work her broody
flatmate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first but Marian has reckoned without an
inner self that wants something more that calmly sabotages her careful plans her stable
routine - and her digestion. Marriage à la mode Marian discovers is something she literally
can't stomach . . . Margaret Atwood's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of
consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. 'Written with a brilliant angry
energy' OBSERVER 'Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the
universal' THE TIMES 'Margaret Atwood not only has a sense of humour she has wit and style
in abundance . . . a joy to read' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
