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The Testaments, Margaret Atwood technology and why the use ofThe wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Offreds future at the end of The Handmaids Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwoods sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. Dear Readers: