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ALIAS GRACE
A crime novel set in Canada in the nineteenth century, where an up-and-coming psychiatrist conducts a series of interviews with a young woman who was imprisoned for the murder of her employer and his lover.
'Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.'
Grace Marks. Female fiend. Femme fatale. Or weak and unwilling victim.
Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
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