Margaret Atwood, whose sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” was released Tuesday, says she was inspired to return to that repressive world because that repressive world has returned to her.

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Margaret Atwood, the bestselling author of the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" and its upcoming sequel, "The Testaments," says she has a rule that the atrocities described in her books had ...

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In this recording, exclusive to NPR, Atwood returns to the world of The Handmaid's Tale, reading from her long-awaited sequel. Some 15 years after the first book, it introduces a few new voices.

Margaret Atwood might be getting the rock star treatment as she launches The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, but the Canadian icon is taking it all in stride.

Although she makes a few nods to the series, Atwood lightly leaps over most of it, setting The Testaments 15 years later than The Handmaid’s Tale, both within Gilead and outside it.

The Testaments takes place 15 years after the end of The Handmaid's Tale. (Supplied: Penguin Random House Australia) None of this was spelled out in Margaret Atwood's original 1985 novel, The ...