The main heroine was travelling a lot with her parents, always lacking good friends. Even her brother as soon as he got older left her. When her family finally settled and bought a house, she starts looking for friends, and finds a group of girls, whose leader was Cordelia. Cordelia is not simply a leader – she is a real dictator and her attitude to Elaine is terrible, unbearable. From the story told by Elaine the readers can see the girl , who was absolutely insecure, turning into a woman, able to estimate her past choices made when being a child, able to become a successful painter . Readers sometimes feel the desire to make her fight for herself, but times passes and she changes and can stand up for herself on her own. The places in the story, where the Elains childhood is described are rather painful and frank. The author tries to present all the complexity of the relations between young girls and women. The main theme of the book is of course psychological, the book is set from different levels of plots and subplots and characters.

In her science fiction novel “Oryx and Crake” Margaret Atwood describes the world in the near future. The world turns from a fool’s paradise into a bio – wasteland. On a ruined planet stays maybe only Snowman, known as Jimmy before, who sleeps in a tree and considers himself a shepherd of a group of human like creatures, called Children of Crake. Snowman has also flashback about the world’s ending falling apart. The landscape of smashed and abandoned computers and buildings is the opening description of the landscape. When Snowman remembers his childhood – he thinks about his best friend – Crake: “Crake had a thing about him even then… He generated awe… in his dark laconic clothing.” But later Jimmy and the most intriguing figure of the story – Crake, become two out of three parts of love triangle with beautiful Oryx making the last corner of it. Finally the Crake’s experiments in bioengineering cause the end of the humanity and Snowman has only pieces of it to gather together. This novel seems to be rather compelling and relevant, our future is described with a good portion of wit and dark humour that makes reader believe into the possibility of such future, either of ecological or scientific disaster.