The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood.[2] A sequel to her The Handmaid's Tale (1985),[3] the novel takes place 15 years after Offred's final scene in the original novel, and is narrated by three female characters: Aunt Lydia, a key character in The Handmaid's Tale; Agnes, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman in Canada who is horrified by Gilead's abuses of human rights.[4]