Classed as fiction but this book is based on the Canadian double murderer Grace Marks. It is very well written but slightly too long than is necessary

Picked up at The Bean mini-meet. I've read some Margaret Atwood novels but not this one.
Will pass on to garabaldisghost.
Thanks for sharing Wendy-Notts

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Marks- -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 Marks spent the next 30 years in an assortment of jails and asylums, where she was often exhibited as a star attraction. In Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood reconstructs Marks's story in fictional form. Her portraits of 19th-century prison and asylum life are chilling in their detail. The author also introduces Dr Simon Jordan, who listens to the prisoner's tale with a mixture of sympathy and disbelief. In his effort to uncover the truth, Jordan uses the tools of the then rudimentary science of psychology. But the last word belongs to the book's narrator--Grace herself.

It took me a while to realise that the pictures & section headings were patchwork blocks, doh!
Really loved this book, found it hard to put down. The main point I got was that people brought their own preconceptions to deciding Grace's guilt or innocence, she was pretty therefore a femme fatale.

Thanks Wendy-Notts

Handed on to me by Reetpetite today, very kindly she remembered me saying that I fancied reading it after her, when she initially caught it nearly 2 years ago.