The long-awaited memoirs of one of our most praised and influential cultural figures.

?How to write your own life one of the greatest storytellers of our time?

Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood: a celebration of life, art, and everything that connects them. The greatest writer of our time tells her story.

Raised by scientifically minded and independent-minded parents, Margaret Atwood spent much of her childhood in the remote forests of northern Quebec, far from social conventions. That nomadic and unattached childhood marked the beginning of an extraordinary path, which she herself narrates with lucidity, irony, and wit, intertwining the decisive moments of her life with the works that have transformed contemporary narrative, such as Cat's eye and The Handmaid's TalePoets, actors, bears, bohemian figures, and almost supernatural characters parade by, seemingly stepped out of her own fiction. With her characteristic wit and sharp lucidity, Atwood reveals the delicate ties between experience and creation, and between reality and the written word. She also opens an intimate window into her relationship with the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and the emotional landscapes that nourished her writing.

Luminous, revealing, and profoundly human, Book of My Lives It is not only the chronicle of a unique journey, but also a profound reflection on what it means to write, to remember, and to transform experience into literature. A fascinating testament from one of the most influential voices of our time.

"Margaret Atwood has titled her highly anticipated memoirs Book of My Lives Because that's exactly what they are: a far from boring, generous, and good-humored account of the lives that fell to someone always ready to downplay their own importance: from wild childhood to wandering youth; from awakening as the poet who has just been awarded the Joan Margarit International Prize to the consecration of the novelist; and of her maturity as the prophetic author of The Handmaid's Tale years into widowhood following the death in 2019 of her second husband, Graeme Gibson, a partner for almost a lifetime and the father of her daughter. The book is also the story of a lost time: the history of the postwar generation and the evolution of customs in the second half of the 20th century, of the triumphs and tribulations of feminism and of those Canadian writers who emerged, thanks to her and her contemporaries, in the hegemonic shadow of the United States.” – Iker Seisdedos The Country