In 1843, a 16 year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Yet opinion remained fiercely divided about Grace. Was she a spurned woman who had taken out her rage on two innocent victims, or was she an unwilling victim herself, caught up in a crime she was too young to understand?

Such doubts persuaded the judges to commute her sentence to life imprisonment, and Grace spent the next 30 years in jails and asylums.

In Alias Grace, Atwood reconstructs Grace's story in fictional form and has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.

Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize.

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