Sawyer Taft has never known any other family member besides her mom. So she did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door, offering to pay her college fees in exchange for Sawyer to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But being amidst her grandmother’s “society” might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life: her father’s identity …
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In this book, in a place called Gilead, everything you know is history. The country knows a strict regime, controlling every aspect of society. Households of a certain authority are lead by the Commander and his wife. Every household also has their own ‘handmaid’. This woman serves as some kind of surrogate for the Commander’s wife, because they were declared infertile. Handmaids live controlled and dehumanised lives, continuously being left in the unknown when it comes to news
Our main character, Tom Hazard, suffers from a rare condition, making him able to live for centuries. As someone who has travelled all over the world and met the most extraordinary people for years and years, Tom decides it is time to retreat. All Tom ever wants is ordinary life, so he moves back to London, his hometown and settles down as a plain forty-one years old history teacher. But trouble soon finds him in the form of a captivating French teacher who shows a fascination for Tom that scares him.