Margaret Atwood is right to have the last word on The Handmaid’s Tale | Stephanie Merritt

News of a sequel has divided fans, but better this than letting the TV adaptation decide Offred’s fate

Praise be! The news that Margaret Atwood is to write a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale has been greeted enthusiastically by fans, to judge by the response on Twitter, where the prize for most obvious gag must go to Stephen Colbert, who said: “Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, and Donald Trump is almost finished with the prequel.”

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