Old Babes in the Wood

"Old Babes in the Wood" is an outstanding colletion of fifteen stories by the award-winning author Margaret Atwood.

In "Old Babes in the Wood" Margaret Atwood explores how we form our history, relations, grief, memory and love. It is a wonderful, captivating and thought-provoking collection of stories that combines cats, a confused snail, an alien who tells twisted human fairy tales, big authors like Martha Gellhorn and George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria and lovers with creative, visionary and challenging perspectives on what humanity is.