Cat's eye

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood – unbearable betrayals and cruelties – surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.

‘Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim…Atwood’s games are played, exquisitely, by little girls’ LISTENER

Irrestistible...This book is about life for all of us. She is one of our finest novelists. Read it
THE TIMES

An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize