By The Author Of The Handmaid's Tale And Alias Grace Elaine Risley, A Painter, Returns To Toronto To Find Herself Overwhelmed By Her Past. Memories Of Childhood - Unbearable Betrayals And Cruelties - Surface Relentlessly, Forcing Her To Confront The Spectre Of Cordelia, Once Her Best Friend And Tormentor, Who Has Haunted Her For Forty Years. 'not Since Graham Greene Has A Novelist Captured So Forcefully The Relationship Between School Bully And Victim...atwood's Games Are Played, Exquisitely, By Little Girls' Listener An Exceptional Novel From The Winner Of The 2000 Booker Prize