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The Handmaid's Tale: where to start reading

Adapts The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.

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The first season adapts the whole novel, closing on the same moment the book does.

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1The Handmaid's Tale1985

The first season adapts the whole of Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, ending where the book ends. Every season after it is original television with no published novel to read, since Atwood's own sequel, The Testaments (2019), is being adapted as a separate show.

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