Alias Grace

'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?

'an explosive mixture of murder, sex and class conflict' -- The Daily Mail
'Brilliant ... Atwood's prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin.' -- Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
'A sensuous, perplexing book, at once sinister and dignified, grubby and gorgeous, panoramic yet specific ... I don't think I have ever been so thrilled ... This, surely is as far as a novel can go.' -- The Independent on Sunday

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her newest novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood’s work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Sarah Gadon is a Toronto-born, Canadian actress. She began performing at a young age and made her TV debut at the age of 11 with a guest appearance on the TV series Nikita. By the age of 18 she had appeared on Canadian-filmed television shows such as Twice in a Lifetime, Life with Derek, Are You Afraid of the Dark? She also appeared in the Disney Channel TV movie Cadet Kelly with Hilary Duff and on TV in Being Erica and Murdoch Mysteries. She later co-starred with Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and stars as the lead role of Grace Marks in the television adaptation of Atwood's award-winning novel, Alias Grace.

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