No New Testament

Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Culture watching
Date posted:  1 Nov 2019
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No New Testament

People slept on the streets outside bookshops the night before the launch of The Testaments this September.

The day of the launch was marked by a programme live-streamed to cinemas across the globe containing an interview with the author and readings from the book. This was, The Guardian told us, ‘the literary event of the year’, with hype on a Harry Potter level.

The centre of attention wasn’t, however, a phenomenon of children’s publishing, but a sequel (and in some ways a prequel) which followed 34 years after Atwood’s dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale.

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