Margaret Atwood
Praise for Book of Lives
Where most such backward looks are cosily triumphalist or anxiously self-justifying, hers is sharp, funny and engaging... nerdy brainiac, waifish poet, Medusa-eyed feminist, uncanny prophet and one of the ...
Blake Morrison, Guardian
Displays the wit, intelligence and complexity that marks her best work... fat and satisfying... these glimpses of the mechanism? are fascinating
Erica Wagner, Observer
Immensely readable... Atwood’s anecdotes and musings are so entertaining, and the fabric of her life, the foundations of her evidently resourceful, hard-working and fiercely funny character so inter ...
Francesca Steels, iNews
Where most such backward looks are cosily triumphalist or anxiously self-justifying, hers is sharp, funny and engaging... nerdy brainiac, waifish poet, Medusa-eyed feminist, uncanny prophet and one of the ...
Blake Morrison, Guardian
Displays the wit, intelligence and complexity that marks her best work... fat and satisfying... these glimpses of the mechanism? are fascinating
Erica Wagner, Observer
Immensely readable... Atwood’s anecdotes and musings are so entertaining, and the fabric of her life, the foundations of her evidently resourceful, hard-working and fiercely funny character so inter ...
Francesca Steels, iNews
Where most such backward looks are cosily triumphalist or anxiously self-justifying, hers is sharp, funny and engaging... nerdy brainiac, waifish poet, Medusa-eyed feminist, uncanny prophet and one of the ...
Blake Morrison, Guardian
Displays the wit, intelligence and complexity that marks her best work... fat and satisfying... these glimpses of the mechanism? are fascinating
Erica Wagner, Observer
Immensely readable... Atwood’s anecdotes and musings are so entertaining, and the fabric of her life, the foundations of her evidently resourceful, hard-working and fiercely funny character so inter ...
Francesca Steels, iNews
