This has been on the "to read" list forever, but it was very different to what I expected - though I am not really sure what that was.
To give a very brief summary, the nameless narrator is a "Handmaid" in a future society of what was once the USA. As a fertile woman in a society where infertility has become the norm, she is "trained" by the government to bear children for a high ranking official whose wife is unable to. The novel delves into and explores in detail this life, and this society which was formed to protect the women from themselves and the men of society, but has instead enslaved them.
Rivetting novel - I can see why it is a modern classic. I have been left thinking and shuddering at the life of this woman, and pondering how believable it seems that a society like this could evolve...
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