
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace Atwood entices us to flip through the photo album of a Canadian woman who closely resembles herself Come here sit beside me she seems to say Then she takes us on an emotional journey through loneliness love loss & old age' Sarah Emily Miano THE TIMESShort stories that trace the course of a life & the lives intertwined with it
- MORAL DISORDER is Margaret Atwood at her very finest ' Funny touching beady-eyed slouchily elegant giving us family life in all its horrors The secret resentments & alignments
- difficult siblings unfair parents hopeless yearnings & rage
- are funny to read about hellish to experience Atwood makes it look so easy doing what she does best tenderly dissecting the human heart A marvellous writer' Lee Langley DAILY MAIL'A model of distillation precision clarity & detail Atwood writes with compassion & intensity not only about her characters but also about the 20th century itself' Mary Flanagan INDEPENDENT'MORAL DISORDER is an infinitely ingenious & perceptive study as intimate as a self-portrait but with an epic breadth of vision It deserves to become a quiet classic' Charlotte Moore SPECTATOR