Atwood’s bleak vision is already a reality for many women

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ posits a fictional future America in which women are violently oppressed, a reality suffered by women around the world today, says Margaret Hickey,

Margaret Atwood says she was prompted to write a sequel to her 1984 bestseller, The Handmaid’s Tale, after ‘November 2016’, when the events her novel describes suddenly seemed, “a lot more close”.