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Another terrific Atwood. The ending fell a bit flat for me, I guess I was expecting something different and I was a little bit bummed. But Atwood tells a terrific story, and her observations are so true to life that I don't see how you can go wrong by picking this one up. Blind Assassin was even better tho, but I highly recommend both.
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Tragic! Grace Marks got caught up in a situation that led to the death of two people in 1843. This is a historical fact. Her employer and his lover, a fellow household servant, were found dead in the basement of their home. Grace left the scene of the crime along with the stable boy, James McDermott. This novel is a retelling of her true life story, written with plenty of fiction to fill in numerous gaps in the historical records.
The story starts with Dr. Jordan, a psychiatrist who hopes to help ...more
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Sixteen year old Grace Marks may or may not have helped commit the murders of her employer and his housekeeper. That she was there, that her kerchief was used to strangle one of the victims and that unknowing witnesses spoke to her after the crimes are all facts, but even a decade later Grace swears that she remembers little of what happened that day. Dr. Simon Jordan is sent to figure out if Grace is telling the truth, and their daily meetings to discuss the crime leads to more confusion and un
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Hated the beginning. B-O-R-I-N-G. I really didn't care how Dr. Jordan preferred his eggs, or reading about all those stuffy doctors and ministers, all of whom I had difficulty keeping straight. Reading the first hundred pages was agony.
Then it "got good."
I was dying to know if Grace was innocent or not. Though Atwood's writing style is thick and laborious to plow through, I quickly read through the pages.
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I was surprised at the ending. I thought the twist would be that Gr ...more
Then it "got good."
I was dying to know if Grace was innocent or not. Though Atwood's writing style is thick and laborious to plow through, I quickly read through the pages.
SPOILER ALERT AHEAD...
...
I was surprised at the ending. I thought the twist would be that Gr ...more
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