Margaret Atwood came across as a very eccentric lady indeed.She is a very sharpe;perceptive ; astute and extremely funny person.This event was an early phase of an extraordinarily ambitious and very long tour.One facet , performed earlier in the day involved a musical programme set to the various poems in her new Book The Year of the Flood.I managed to read the first 3 pages , it gets straight to the point and seems to be shaping up into a cracking entertaining read.Im hoping to get a loan of a copy sometime later in the year.
Atwood has also recently written a wide ranging and exhaustive , and astonishingly highly entertaining , Book about the topic of debt called " Payback: Debt and the shadowside of wealth" and how it shapes society.It is based on a series of very well received lectures she gave , the timing could not have been better for the publication date as the first signs of a major debt crises began to manifest themselves.
Hear her discussing the issues in the video below:
At the end we managed to worm our way through the snakelike crowd to get the Book autographed.
