Old Babes in the Wood
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Margaret Atwood
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A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world.
These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords.
They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales.
At the heart of the collection is a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love—and what comes after.
The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.
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- Auri Jürna
- 18-09-24
Interesting, but could be better
I adore Atwood, her stories are usually slow at start, but gripping and emotional as they grow. But these stories suffer a bit by the author's narration (on some stories), which lacks the emotion and colour compared to other narrators. Also, as slow-growing stories these novellas tend to be less engaging than her novels.
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- Susan Pirie
- 13-07-23
Thanks Margaret
I think i have read all your books but there was new stuff here. Old age blunts the mind but yours has years to go!
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- Mrs R.
- 19-03-23
Very disappointing
Despite Margaret Atwood being such a renowned author I have given up on these stories. I gave up on part one, so then tried part two. When it got to the utter rubbish of “collecting penises and feeding them worms”, or some such thing, I decided these stories are truly not good at all. The latter parts of the stories seem to have little connection to the start. Very disappointed and wish I hadn’t wasted a credit on it. And I never give bad reviews because I’m not that harsh……but this………
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- Sussex suburbian
- 08-07-24
Very pleased to have finally finished this
The stories were not exactly gripping, but the narration was terrible. The author should not have narrated her own work. It sounded as though she was reading a shopping list. I fell asleep so often whilst trying to listen to these stories and gave up rewinding them as nothing much happened anyway.
A narrator with more warmth and expression may have changed my mind, but I suspect not.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-07-23
Disappointing
I couldn’t even finish this book, it was that bad. Just disappointed and regretted ever choosing to buy it
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