This short but captivatingly emotional book was inspirational even before I started reading it. I just had to read the blurb to know that the perspective given within its 132 pages would greatly affect me.

One of Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s best-known works, The Handmaid’s Tale is a perfect addition to a history of novels about futuristic dystopian governments and the oppression of women. Fans of Brave New World and 1984 would do well to take a look at this work, reviewed below by Hana Galal.