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Stone Mattress consists of nine stories that give readers psychological insight and talk about troubled relationships. Summary of the Book These nine tales will keep you entertained with their wit and dark humour. Read about a woman who is being guided through a rough winter evening by the voice of her dead husband, and a lady with the Charles Bonnet syndrome who struggles to come to terms with all the little people that she has been seeing. During this time, a populist group that was only recently formed decides to burn down her retirement home. About Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist and environmental activist. She has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. She has also been shortlisted for the Booker Prize many times and won it once. Atwood is the founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that helps in encouraging Canada’s writing community.