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Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist
Most readers will have to wait until September to find out what happens in Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, but the Booker judges have deemed The Testaments worthy of a place on the 2019 longlist for the £50,000 literary prize. This is the sixth time the Canadian novelist has been nominated for the Booker, and her second nomination since she won the UK’s most prestigious literary prize for The Blind Assassin in 2000.
