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Hi Margaret, You've been proactive in embracing technology and seem really pleased with the new adaptation of Handmaid's. I was wondering if I could ask you how you would feel about a HMT computer game? Could that work and how would you see it as succeeding or failing?

My pupils are currently writing pastiches based around the events in HMT (e.g. the fate of Moira / Luke) - how do you feel about the idea of 'fan fiction' for HMT? Is it the wrong kind of book for this kind of reaction or should readers enter (and inevitably change) the novel in this way? Do you still feel authorial control / proprietorial over HMT?

I was wondering about the psychology / appeal of novels like HMT and other prison narratives too in terms of the fact that the characters are in these terrible yet somehow exciting positions in which they must try to plot their escape. To what extent do you think that we might fantasise about being these characters (as opposed to just being shocked and appalled by their conditions)?