Women Talking Av Miriam Toews

<p><b>**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW**<br><br>''Don''t miss this.'' </b>MARGARET ATWOOD<br><b>''Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.'' </b>LISA McINERNEY<b><br>¿Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.¿ </b><i>The Times</i><br><b>''An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.'' </b>LAUREN GROFF<br><br>In 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.¿ <br><br>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?<br><br><b>''Profound, affecting stuff.'' </b><i>Sunday Telegraph</