Significant Moments

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529983739
  • Weight: 94g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Venture on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Margaret Atwood, one of the most iconic writers of our time, in these stories of mothers, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all. This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS- classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic The Handmaid's Tale was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories; and Book of Lives, her memoir.

Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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