One, Agnes, is the daughter she was forced to give up when she became a handmaid. We discover that both are Offred’s daughters. It is in the identity of these young women that Atwood incorporates elements of the TV series.
These narrators are Aunt Lydia – the most senior of the Aunts in the first novel, who trains and manages the handmaids on behalf of the Gilead regime – and two young women. The claustrophobic first-person narration of Offred is widened out to incorporate the stories of three narrators. The action of The Testaments takes place 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. Now, in her eagerly awaited sequel, The Testaments, Atwood makes a series of dizzying creative decisions which move away from, but also develop out of, both novel and TV series. Series one was directly based on Atwood’s novel and subsequent episodes over two years have continued the story of Offred beyond the ambivalent ending Atwood imagined for her, in which her fate is uncertain. Partly this is a consequence of the immensely successful TV series, the third series of which has just concluded.
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