**READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE MAJOR FILM STARRING CLAIRE FOY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, ROONEY MARA AND BEN WHISHAW**
''Don''t miss this.'' MARGARET ATWOOD
''Beautiful. . . a novel for the times.'' LISA McINERNEY
-Tender, enraging and brimming with a bitter wit.- The Times
''An astonishment, a volcano of a novel.'' LAUREN GROFF
In a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated-by what many thought were ghosts or demons-as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to -wild female imagination.-
Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a plan before the rapists are bailed out and brought home: will they dare to escape?
''Profound, affecting stuff.'' Sunday Telegraph</
