EAN: 9781784744496

ATWOOD MARGARET BOOK OF LIVES

'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' ALI SMITH  'She's Margaret Atwood and she can
do anything' ANN PATCHETT  'She saw it all coming' TIME  'The outstanding novelist of our age'
SUNDAY TIMES   Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life
art and everything in between: the greatest writer of our time tells her own story  Raised by
scientifically minded parents  Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern
Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent  resourceful mother. It
was an unfettered and nomadic childhood  sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful. 
From this unconventional start  Atwood unfolds the story of her life  linking key moments to
the books that have shaped our literary landscape  from the cruel school year that would become
Cat's Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin  where she began The Handmaid's Tale . In pages alive
with the natural world  reading and books  major political turning points and her lifelong love
for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson  we meet poets  bears  Hollywood stars and
larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.   As she explores her
past  Atwood reveals more and more about her writing  the connections between real life and art
- and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.  ** THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ALL THE
MARGARET ATWOOD FANS IN YOUR LIFE **   **Top ten Sunday Times bestseller week of 22 November
2025**

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