The 'riotous, insanely readable' (Observer) retelling of The Tempest from the bestselling author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and upcoming sequel THE TESTAMENTS.

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Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds.

Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Also brewing revenge.

After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It’s magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?

Sales Points

• Authors and plays so far: Jeanette Winterson, The Winter's Tale; Howard Jacobson, The Merchant of Venice; Anne Tyler, The Taming of the Shrew; Margaret Atwood, The Tempest; Jo Nesbo, Macbeth; Tracy Chevalier, Othello; Gillian Flynn, Hamlet; Edward St Aubyn, King Lear.
• Megastar, bestselling, prizewinning, critically acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, activist and inventor. Famously inspired by fairy tales, myths, the environment and the future, The Tempest was made to be retold by Atwood while Hag-Seed stands alone as an amazing Atwood novel in its own right
• The Channel 4 adaptation of Atwood's THE HANDMAID'S TALE is this summer's smash hit, and has propelled the book back into the Sunday Times bestseller lists