Women Talking

<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</i><br> <b>'Brave and thoughtful.'</b> <i>Observer</i></p>