Cat's Eye

By the author of The Handmaid''s Tale and Alias Grace

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.

''Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and victim...Atwood''s games are played, exquisitely, by little girls'' LISTENER
An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize