Alias Grace

Description

In this masterpiece of historical fiction, Margaret Atwood reconstructs the true story of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women in 19th-century Canada. Convicted of the brutal 1843 murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper/mistress, Nancy Montgomery, Grace is either a cold-blooded “femme fatale” or a helpless victim of circumstance. Years into her life sentence, she is interviewed by Dr. Simon Jordan, a fictional pioneer in mental health who attempts to unlock her repressed memories of the day of the crime.