Women Talking

READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW'Don't miss this. '. MARGARET ATWOOD'Beautiful. a novel for the times. '. LISA McINERNEY'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit. '. The Times. 'An astonishment, a volcano of a novel. '. LAUREN GROFFIn a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to 'wild female imagination. ' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape. 'Profound, affecting stuff. '. Sunday Telegraph. 'Brave and thoughtful. '. Observer.