Margaret Atwood: Handmaid's Tale sales boosted by fear of Trump

• Author sees ‘bubbling up’ of ‘puritan values’ towards women’s issues
• 1985 dystopian novel follows Orwell’s 1984 up bestseller charts

Margaret Atwood has said worries about women’s issues after the US election have made her book The Handmaid’s Tale the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up bestseller lists.

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