Dearly Chatto & Windus Effy's tattered copy is all

Effy's tattered copy is all that's keeping her afloat through her stifling first term at her prestigious architecture college

One is Sir Paul Berowne

Cheltenham Races

His impoverished childhood in the slums of Islington is brought to an end by a tragedy that sends him north to Scarsdale

Dearly Chatto & Windus Effy's tattered copy is allThe collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet and cultural phenomenon. Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political