A new }Vintage Classics{ edition of this Booker-shortlisted terrifying novel, aimed specifically at young adults. A perennial A Level text, this edition includes the exclusive 'Backstory' of how Margaret Atwood came to write this landmark novel Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept.
