Elisabeth Moss

Margaret Atwood says, the thieves made concerted efforts to steal your manuscript for The last will and Testament, the sequel to The story of the servant.

The author and her publisher were the target of the "fake emails" to try to get the "cyber-criminal", the unpublished novel, she told the BBC.

she described the trials as "phishing exercise", which could have led to blackmail and Identity Theft .

"It was a commercial project of a robbery kind of," Atwood said.

"people have tried to steal it. Really, you tried to steal, and we had a lot of code words and passwords," she told the BBC's arts correspondent Rebecca Jones .

"What would you have done if you had done it? You could have said: "We have the manuscript, and we put it online [if you] give us your credit card details". Or you could have said: "read an excerpt, and download. And if you load it down, a virus would your information have been stolen'.

"remember, how terrible, we would all had to have felt what happened. "

In the end, the novel was kept out of thieves hands and a major operation was put in place to ensure, details drawing, not leak to The Press .

the Early copies were issued to give, under a different title out of fear that you have stolen, while the judges for the Booker Prize were to sign a confidentiality agreement before they could read, watermarks, manuscripts were Locked In a drawer overnight.

Then, last week, the online retailer Amazon erroneously executed copies of the novel delivered to US customers a week before the publication date of September 10,

Atwood played down The Incident , characterizing it as a "boo-boo" and "great turmoil," say the was the biggest surprise that Amazon had, she apologized.

"Apparently, this is the First Time that you apologized ever for anything ever before," said the 79-year-old. "At least, that's what I was told. "(Never your ordinary contrite, Amazon has at least once, in the year 2009, for which a distance from people, the Kindle devices).

However, proposed Atwood, that it is the financial penalty for such errors should, "whether with intent or due to an error".

"I think that someone put an embargo in The Future install, you should have a dollar amount," She Said . "You should not say, if this is against the embargo, what it will cost you and this money goes to independent bookstores. "

Despite the secrecy surrounding The wills, the get the novel already has dozens of positive reviews, with critics a deeming it "" and "".

15 years after the Report of The maid, it gives the reader the oppressive Republic of Gilead, a dystopian future America in which women had been taken, their rights and reduced to Sexual Slavery .

The original narrator Offred, the escape to Canada and the story continues with three female narrators, which offer different perspectives on The Regime to crumble as it begins.

Atwood says she's been inspired to have back to Gilead, of the events in "The World in which we lived States" and " The certificates required, such as access to abortion and women's health services are limited in several U.S. Federal government. to try

"The great efforts of the trump management in this area, and get rid of Roe versus Wade," said Atwood, referring to the, what is a woman's right to abortion enshrined.

The policy change has a. the story of The story of the servant more relevant for A Generation of Young Women who "feel they are on the threshold of decisions about them, and about their future and fate, and the body and health, the design you will be able to," the author continues

"the Young Women in the reproductive age are always in the minority in any society and therefore, they are never allowed to vote, as a group, on the measures they relate to.

"So that the people who are making decisions to go to be men, and they will age the women not of child-bearing. "

The Canadian author, to protest that she had been asked by women to accept the maid of the "uniform" of white hoods and long red capes laws restrict the rights of women.

"It's a brilliant demonstration of war," she says. "It started in Texas, when A Number of them went in the Texas Legislature where. a group of men in suits were to make laws, on the body of women.

"So, you were there and you do not, can not kick you to say because you do something, and they can't kick you out because you are dressed wrong, because they are covers all the course. But any look at, you know what they mean.

"So, so, in the age of television, they are very visible and very clear signal to [resistance]. "

The images has been reached, the even greater cultural significance, thanks to The Hit TV adaptation of The story of the servant, which stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred.

While The First series followed closely on Atwood's novel, the have developed the second and Third Season , Offred's story about the circumference of The Source material.

The Canadian writer says, she reads and approves all the scripts, but has yet to sit down with The Box set ("I'm going to see if I have a little more time").

But you wrote negates The will to reclaim ownership of their history.

"I think you implied that I'm vindictive and weird as I actually," she laughs. "Not that I'm not vindictive and weird. "

"But everyone in The Show is very dedicated and for them it is not only show to others, it is only an acting part. They get very engaged. "

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