A model of distillation, precision, clarity and detail . . . Atwood writes with compassion and intensity not only about her characters but also about the 20th century itself ? INDEPENDENTIngenious and perceptive. . . deserves to become a quiet classic ? SPECTATORAn emotional journey through loneliness, love, loss and old age. . . This snapshot collection is a study of memory, to be cherished ? THE TIMESVivid, crispy focused, full of depth and beguiling detail ? SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceThis collection of short stories follows a woman at different points in her life, from the loneliness of childhood, the ardour and confusion of young adulthood, and the mortality we must all eventually face up to. MORAL DISORDER is Margaret Atwood at her very finest. Praise for Moral Disorder: 'Atwood entices us to flip through the photo album of a Canadian woman who closely resembles herself.Come here, sit beside me, she seems to say. Then she takes us on an emotional journey through loneliness, love, loss and old age' Sarah Emily Miano, THE TIMES'Atwood makes it look so easy, doing what she does best: tenderly dissecting the human heart . .. A marvellous writer' Lee Langley, DAILY MAIL'A model of distillation, precision, clarity and detail . .. Atwood writes with compassion and intensity not only about her characters but also about the 20th century itself' Mary Flanagan, INDEPENDENT