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Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother

English · Paperback

Will be released 02.07.2026

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This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

About the author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic The Handmaid's Tale was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories.

Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Product details

Authors Margaret Atwood
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Release 02.07.2026
 
EAN 9781529983739
ISBN 978-1-5299-8373-9
No. of pages 176
Series Brief Encounters
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

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