As always wry beadyeyed acute. Margaret Atwood via From the bestselling awardwinning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between them that spans decades. When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron Hood with Merry Jellicoe as roommates in 1958 she has no way of knowing the farreaching consequences of the match. Feron who has narrowly escaped from a dark past instantly takes to Merry and her composed pe