I love Margaret Atwood but I couldn't stop rolling my eyes at this book. Nate has nothing to recommend himself to any of the women that he's dating/married to. Elizabeth is wantonly cruel to all the women in Nate's life. For a creature of pure logic, where is Lesje's reason to fall in love with Nate after just one date? Then there's William, whose only characterisation involves pink skin mentioned every time he turns up in the book.