Publisher's Synopsis
Over fifteen years after the events of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, the Republic of Gilead has maintained its grip on power. Yet there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. And, as it does, the lives of these three radically different women will converge: Agnes, the cosseted child of a high-status Wife, recalls only the barest fragments of the time before Gilead. Now she desperately seeks to escape being married off to an ageing Commander. Canadian teenager Daisy's only connection to Gilead is through school studies, protests, and the pamphlets of their Pearl Girl missionaries. Or so she thinks. Meanwhile, within the bastions of Ardua Hall, the notorious Aunt Lydia has taken up a pen and begun to write...
