Women Talking

**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