- Title:
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Alias Grace (MP3)
- Written by:
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Margaret Atwood
- Read by:
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Shelley Thompson
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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15 hours 58 minutes
- MP3 size:
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581 MB
- Published:
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October 01 2014
- Available Date:
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October 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486226535
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; Mystery
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestselling author
Shortlisted The Man Booker Prize 1996
Winner The Giller Prize 1996
Soon to be 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?
'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
'an explosive mixture of murder, sex and class conflict'
The Daily Mail
'Alias Grace has all the pacing of a commercial novel and all the resonance of a classic.'
Washington Post Book World
'Atwood provides the elements of a walloping good read: suspense, mystery, titillation, and a fully crafted but never ponderous historical milieu.'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
'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