6/25/2023 0 Comments Hagseed online![]() ![]() (No offence, Will.)" - Viv Groskop Observer "A triumph. There is so much exuberance and heart and wonder in this novel that the only thing I want to happen next is for Atwood to rewrite the whole of Shakespeare. ![]() The novel builds to a fantastic climax of dark calamity. "Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood's novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. ![]() ![]() Now he's staging a Tempestlike no other- not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. His productions have amazed and confounded. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. ** Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction ** Selected as a Book of the Year - Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine 'It's got a thunderstorm in it. ![]()
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