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? ‘Don’t miss this one. This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale,’ Margaret Atwood.