A good book. Then Margaret Atwood is a good writer. And as you read through it, you mentally save all those quotes.

This is a very simple book for Atwood, or so I thought. There are three women; childish somehow, even Roz the businesswoman, and then there is their nemesis Zenia. As I read through it, it dawns on me how brilliant the writer is because I am scared of what Zenia will do next. Just like them. The words she flings at them hurt, and there is the helplessness, there is pain, everything comes through in words. Zenia is brilliant as the monster of fairytale, ruthless, not quite human. So are the three little women, who are so crazy about love and so vulnerable.

As I finished the book, it occurred to me all the men in this book are bad ‘uns, mean and selfish. The women are good. :) And they are the ones (except Zenia) who are loyal, in love forever and generally nice humans. Of course except the two gay men.