** Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction ** Selected as a
Book of the Year -- Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine
'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' 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: not only will it 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. And 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? Margaret Atwood's novel take on
Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on
an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and
wonders of its own.