In Australia, you have the possibility of shrivelling to death in the outback. "Of course if you are a novelist, it determined how you kill off your characters. "But we do have a lot of weather and it's very important," she says. They seem to be bound up with her identity as a Canadian writer for people in the United States, she remarks drily, Canada is solely significant as a source of cold fronts.
It comes as no surprise that Atwood should pick The Tempest, given the prevalence of storms and snowdrifts in her stories. Hag-Seed was a commission from the Hogarth Press, which has been asking eminent contemporary authors to write novels based on Shakespeare's plays for the 400th anniversary of his death. A bucketload of ice isn't going to defeat Margaret Atwood. There were no roads, electricity or running water where he gathered his insects, just an urgent early education in survival skills. For much of her childhood, however, her family lived on a small scientific research station in the woods of northern Quebec her father was an entomologist.
Atwood lives in Toronto with her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson in slim black trousers, boots and an on-trend swathe of colourful scarf, she cuts a very smart urban figure.
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