Alias Grace

By (author) Atwood, Margaret
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By the author of The Handmaid''s Tale *** A major NETFLIX series
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By the author of The Handmaid''s Tale

Now a major NETFLIX series

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.

''Brilliant... Atwood''s prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin'' Hilary Mantel

''The outstanding novelist of our age'' Sunday Times

''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'' Julie Myerson, Independent on Sunday

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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
Review quote:
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
Review quote:
Brilliant...Atwood''s prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin
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Brilliant...Atwood''s prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin
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Margaret Atwood is to be congratulated
Review quote:
Margaret Atwood is to be congratulated
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The outstanding novelist of our age
Review quote:
The outstanding novelist of our age
Biographical note:
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.
Primary cover copy:
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.
Review quote: previous work:
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 - Julie Myerson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Brilliant...Atwood''s prose is searching. So intimate it seems to be written on the skin - Hilary Mantel

Margaret Atwood is to be congratulated - Anita Brookner, SPECTATOR

The outstanding novelist of our age - Peter Kemp, SUNDAY TIMES