Booker prize: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale sequel makes shortlist

The Testaments, still under wraps before publication next Tuesday, joins final six alongside Salman Rushdie’s latest and a 1,000-page monologue

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s much-anticipated sequel to her feminist dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale, has landed her a place on the Booker prize shortlist – despite the fact that barely anyone has read it yet.

With little publicly known beyond that it is set more than 15 years after Atwood’s hero Offred escaped a theocratic future US, the plot of The Testaments remains under lock and key for most readers until its global release date on 10 September, with midnight launches and bookshop parties planned around the world.

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