By Margaret Atwood
Chatto & Windus £22
These 15 stories by Margaret Atwood are a mixed bag.
The first three and the last four feature an elderly couple called Tig and Nell. They are based, I imagine, on Atwood herself (now aged 83) and her husband, Graham Gibson, who died in 2019. The eight stories that form the book's core explore a variety of themes, some fantastical and futuristic.
There is an interview between the author and, as told by an alien. In one tale, the soul of a snail translates into the body of a bank clerk, and in another, two best friends squabble over their memories of the past.
