Margaret Atwood is writing her own damn sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
Hulu’s grim, affecting The Handmaid’s Tale was renewed for a third season this past May, but it now appears the dispiriting realm of Gilead will roll on off the screen as well. Margaret Atwood, who penned the award-winning tome upon which the series is based, announced on Wednesday morning that she’s got her own sequel in the works. Called The Testaments, it will be set 15 years after the end of the first novel and published in September of 2019.
“Yes indeed to those who asked: I’m writing a sequel to The #HandmaidsTale,” Atwood wrote on Twitter. “#TheTestaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene and is narrated by three female characters. It will be published in Sept 2019.”