The Handmaid's Tale

** The sunday times no. 1 Bestseller **discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. 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. 'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' bernadine evaristo game-changing gains more significance with each passing year’ dua lipa as relevant today as it was when atwood wrote it’ guardian

** The sunday times no. 1 Bestseller **discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a handmaid in the republic of gilead. She