More Handmaid's Tale sequels? 'Never say never', says Margaret Atwood

Canadian author of The Testaments refuses to rule it out, saying she was pushed to writing the sequel by US moves to police women’s bodies

The growing similarities between the US and her fictional regime of Gilead, where women’s bodies are policed by a totalitarian state, helped prompt Margaret Atwood into writing her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the author has said.

Speaking publicly for the first time about The Testaments, which is released worldwide on Tuesday, 34 years after the story of Offred ended in The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood said that there had been “many requests for a sequel” over the intervening years, but she “always said no”.

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