LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Selected as a Book of the Year Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, New Statesman, i magazine Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now hes staging aTempestlike 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 hisTempestand snare the traitors who destroyed him. Its magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays includingThe Handmaids Tale,the Booker-winningThe Blind Assassin, theMaddAddamtrilogy and her latest novel,The Heart Goes Last.Her work has received many awards around the world. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer.
Her first encounters with Shakespeare took place in the 1950s at her Toronto high school, and she has consistently named him as one of the most important influences on her own work. 'The Tempestis, in some ways, an early multi-media musical. If Shakespeare were working today hed be using every special effect technology now makes available. ButThe Tempestis especially intriguing because of the many questions it leaves unanswered. What a strenuous pleasure it has been to wrestle with it!'
