Alias Grace: TV Tie-In Edition (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Now a major NETFLIX series – Atwood's most captivating, disturbing and satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale.
'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.
Sixteen years have passed since teenaged Grace was locked up for the cold-blooded murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his lover, Nancy Montgomery. Saved from the gallows where her alleged accomplice was hanged, Grace claims to have no memory of the events which changed her life for ever.
Dr Simon Jordan is an expert in the field of amnesia. His objective is to unlock the dormant part of Grace's mind and discover the truth behind one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of all time.
Was Grace an unwitting accessory, or a cold-blooded killer?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Margaret Atwood's gripping take on a real-life double murder brilliantly combines fiction and reality in an intensely compelling narrative. Grace Marks was 16 in 1828, when she was imprisoned for a crime she doesn't remember committing. But 15 years later, pioneering psychologist Dr Simon Jordan realises something doesn't add up, and through his sessions with Grace, takes us into the darkest and most fascinating recesses of her mind. We were astounded as this disturbing whodunit transformed into an engrossing character study and trenchant commentary on the sexism in society, both past and present. Veteran Atwood narrator Shelley Thompson imbues Grace’s deferential politeness with a haunted quality that’s a sharp contrast to Dr Jordan’s initially brusque, authoritative tone. Alias Grace takes us on a chilling journey to connect a well-mannered woman with a cold-blooded crime, but the destination it ultimately arrives at is even more ominous.
