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So back she went to Gilead, for The Testaments, published in 2019 and co-winner of that year’s Booker Prize. But finding her way back into the original novel’s world was complicated; she didn’t want to re-create the voice of Offred, who narrates The Handmaid’s Tale. And, because the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, of which Atwood is a consulting producer, had already gone beyond the events in the original novel, she needed to be careful not to contradict a story already being told.

The solution was to set the new novel 16 years in the future – the show hadn’t gotten that far yet – and to find new voices to tell it.

Concord Monitor

I listened to the audiobook recently and have to say that I like the series much better.  That's unusual as I tend to prefer a book over the movie adaptation.