
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace Elaine Risley a painter returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past Memories of childhood
- unbearable betrayals & cruelties
- surface relentlessly forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia once her best friend & tormentor who has haunted her for forty years' Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully & victim Atwood's games are played exquisitely by little girls' LISTENERAn exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize