The Handmaid's Tale

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **<BR><BR>Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.<BR><BR>Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.<BR><BR>'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo<BR><BR>'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian