Margaret Atwood

Amazon has it apologized for sending some pre-ordered copies of The certificates of Margaret Atwood 's follow-up to The story of the servant.

The online retailer said: "a technical error" had caused some of US to be customers, "accidentally mailed copies".

"We apologize for this error; we value our relationship with authors, agents and publishers", said a statement.

they added that they regretted "the difficulties that she caused, you and our fellow booksellers".

publisher, Penguin Random House had instructed, to keep the sellers, the much-anticipated sequel kept under lock and key until his release on 10 September.

The lucky customer that received the wrong, were the book over the moon.

"I feel like I won The Lottery !"

"Wow! A week early? !"

Penguin Random House would not confirm how many copies were sent, but they put the figure at 800.

In a previous statement, Penguin Random House, said: "In the United States, a very small number of copies of Margaret Atwood " The certificates were distributed early by a retailer, the error is now corrected.

"We appreciate that readers have been Waiting Patiently , in some cases for More Than 30 years, for the much-awaited sequel to the bestselling" The story of the servant. To ensure that our readers around The World receive their copies on the same day, our global date of publication Tuesday, 10 remains. September. "

The last will and Testament is The Most anticipated title of the year, and comes in the original 34 years after Atwood. It.

The error upset other retailers who said they would be punished if they made the same mistake, and suspected that Amazon would not with the same consequences.

his "strong disappointment about this blatant violation of the agreed Protocol published this book to The Public ".

Lexi Beach, owner of the New York Astoria bookshop, an embargo agreement, promises, copies of the book would be stored "in a monitored and locked, secured area and not on the selling floor before the on-sale date".

The strict security measures included review copies and send it to the critic with a fake title and cover,

The last will and Testament wrote "a very different novel in terms of form and tone" in comparison with its predecessor, Ron Charles .

Aunt Lydia , one of the maids' matriarchal mentors, is one of the three speakers in the new book - "a brilliant strategic decision that The World of Gilead Inside Out ", the Washington Post critic said.

He added: "The Testament is far from the scathing satire on the political and theological misogyny, which is The story of the servant. In this new novel, Atwood is far more focused on the creation of a fleet thriller as it is on the exploration of the nature of the systemic repression. "

The last will and Testament was "a success that is More Than justifies its Booker Prize shortlisting", and "a battle cry for activism," with brutality, "still shocking".

It "takes us on a subtly altered Gilead, and in many ways, a hopeful one," she wrote.

burn After a review by The Telegraph's Serena Davies, the new book, "the dramatic thrust and power, the shock to the memory".

It is a "blockbuster driving, almost breathless narrative, stacked with twists and turns and a Gothic novel is intended to be worthy," she wrote.

In The New York Times review, Michiko Kakutani wrote: "Atwood sheer assurance as a storyteller makes for a quick, captivating narrative, which as a driving force, as it is melodramatic it is. "

The author is forces are "on full display" while The Nazi Propaganda was "worthy of the literary classics, it goes on".

The book takes 15 years after the end of the original, and The Other two narrators, a young woman, raised in a powerful Gilead, the family and The Other from a 16-year-old Canadian Girl .

Despite The Darkness of the original, slate and Vox are both agreed to read the follow-up was "funny".

"is It a romp. But the dizziness is what The Testaments makes you feel less than The story of the servant,"

It has "a corker of a conspiracy", which pointed out that Atwood was influenced by the TV series, which has about the plot of the original book. "His sound hews closer to the series than the novel that preceded it," she wrote.

The Hulu TV series, starring Elisabeth Moss , the airs, which was renewed on Channel 4 in the UK, for a fourth season.

Hulu is The adaptation of products for the small screen, but it is not yet clear whether Atwood folded new story into the existing map, or developed as a separate drama.

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