The Testaments

The Testaments is the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale and is set fifteen years after its events. It has three narrators: Aunt Lydia, a character from the earlier novel; Agnes Jemima, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada. Lydia’s account reaches back to the establishment of Gilead, when she, then a judge, was imprisoned and later chosen to become one of the Aunts who oversee the laws governing women. Agnes is raised as a Commander’s daughter and attends a school where girls are taught to run a household but not to read.