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Canadian literary legend Margaret Atwood’s latest collection of short stories is set to drop next Tuesday (March 7).
The new book, Old Babes in the Woods, explores the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as Second World War parade swords.
The 83-year-old author, often considered amongst the greatest living storytellers, has compiled seven of her short stories into the book, whose name is a play on the traditional English children’s tale Babes in the Wood.
Known for classics like The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake and The Testaments, Margaret’s latest book features cats, a confused snail, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales.
