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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Shaffi

Margaret Atwood to publish ‘highly personal’ collection of short stories

‘Old Babes in the Wood is a mixed bag, like life’ … Margaret Atwood.
‘Old Babes in the Wood is a mixed bag, like life’ … Margaret Atwood. Photograph: Estela Silva/EPA

A new collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, which the publisher has described as highly personal, is to be published early next year, marking her first return to fiction since 2019’s The Testaments.

Old Babes in the Wood will contain 15 stories, some published for the first time . The title story was previously published in the New Yorker and is about two elderly sisters at a family cabin by a lake.

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