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READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW 'Don't miss this. ' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Beautiful. . . a novel for the times. ' LISA McINERNEY 'Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit. ' The Times 'An astonishment, a volcano of a novel. ' LAUREN GROFF 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. ' 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? 'Profound, affecting stuff. ' Sunday Telegraph 'Brave and thoughtful. ' Observer
