Nell and Tig approach the course in good humour at one point, when told to get down on the ground to practise resuscitation, Tig tells Nell that, given the state of his knees, she'll have to call 911 to get someone to lift him back up again. In the opening story, First Aid, Nell remembers a training course the couple once completed together. This couple have been together for decades, and their love is deep and comforting. Old Babes in the Wood is a short story collection bookended by stories about two characters - Nell and Tig. Margaret Atwood mines deeply personal terrain in Old Babes in the Wood, her first work of fiction since The Testaments, her Booker-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. "Widows are passing it around to other widows," Atwood told ABC RN'S The Book Show.
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