PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.
Gloriously madcap ... You only pause in your laughter when you realise that, in its constituent parts, the world she depicts here is all too horribly plausible -- Stephanie Merritt Observer Her eye for the most unpredictable caprices of the human heart and her narrative fearlessness have made her one of the world's most celebrated novelists -- Naomi Alderman Guardian The bestselling author who shot to fame 30 years ago with The Handmaid's Tale is still at her darkly comic best Sunday Times Atwood's gift is to take what's already out there and nudge it to the next level ... The Heart Goes Last is all at once thrilling, funny, grim - and shockingly convincing -- Erica Wagner Harper's Bazaar What distinguishes Atwood's apocalypticism is her insistence that we have brought it on ourselves. It's not meteor strikes, or aliens that destroy our world. It's us ... I loved it -- John Sutherland The Times Jubilant comedy of errors, bizarre bedroom farce, SF prison-break thriller, psychedelic sixties crime caper: The Heart Goes Last scampers in and out of all of these genres, pausing only to quote Milton on the loss of Eden or Shakespeare on weddings. Meanwhile, it performs a hard-eyed autopsy on themes of impersonation and self-impersonation, revealing so many layers of contemporary deception and self-deception that we don't know whether to laugh or cry Guardian
