This article contains spoilers for the 2017 special edition audiobook of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

The feminist dystopia – which details a bleak American future where women are forced into a life of sexual servitude and surrogacy – was first published in 1985, but the story it weaves is more relevant now than ever before.

Narrated by Offred (an anonymous ‘handmaid’), The Handmaid’s Tale details a bleak American future where women are forced into a life of sexual servitude and surrogacy. Their basic human rights are stripped away, their fertility is placed above their identity and they become little more than ‘objects’ to the men around them.

Now, to celebrate the hugely anticipated TV adaptation (starring Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley), Atwood has teamed up with Audible to release a brand-new edition of her most famous novel. And, in it, she has unveiled a different ending (along with a few less-than-subtle sequel hints).

Margaret Atwood has penned a brand-new ending for The Handmaid’s Tale