Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.‘Ten days after the war ended my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ Thus begins The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood’s new novel. Laura Chase’s older sister Iris married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two is living in Port Ticonderoga a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who try to help her Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life and her perilous times but in particular on the events surrounding her sister’s tragic early death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase a dollop of notoriety as well as a cult following: as Iris says she herself lives ‘in the long shadow cast by Laura’. Sexually explicit for its time and place The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run.Margaret Atwood the Sunday Times bestselling author delivers a compelling narrative in The Blind Assassin. This top literary fiction novel set in the turbulent thirties explores the risky affair of a wealthy young woman.For fans of Barbara Kingsolver (Demon Copperhead) Cormac Mccarthy (Stella Maris) Angela Carter (Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales) Ian Mcewan (Lessons) and Daphne Du Maurier (Don't Look Now And Other Stories).
