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Significant Moments
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529983739
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.00

Significant Moments

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Venture on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Margaret Atwood, one of the most iconic writers of our time, in these stories of mothers, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all.

This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529983739
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.00

About the author

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty works, which include fiction, poetry and critical essays. Oryx and Crake is her eleventh novel, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, as was The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's, and Alias Grace. Her novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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Also by Margaret Atwood

Freedom
The Handmaid's Tale
The Testaments
War Bears
Bodily Harm
Old Babes in the Wood
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