~ Trade Paperback, Media Tie-In Cover
~ Winner of the Scotia Giller Prize - 1996
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders . . .
Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers taking readers back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.
"Atwood has surpassed herself, writing with a glittering, singing intensity." -- New York Review of Books