Alias Grace, published 21 years ago, was Margaret Atwood’s 9th novel. It has been adapted to tv by Sarah Polley, now available on Netflix. Apparently Polley first wrote to Atwood to ask for the film rights shortly after publication, when she was a mere 17-year-old!
Set in 1840s and 1850s Ontario – it had only recently been the British-controlled colony of Upper Canada – 'Alias Grace' recreates the true and much disputed story of Grace Marks.
Marks and her fellow servant James McDermott were accused of the 1843 murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper and lover, Nancy Montgomery; it appeared that Marks was in love with Kinnear and McDermott in pursuit of Marks. McDermott was hanged, while Marks was sent to prison by way of the lunatic asylum. When we first meet her in Atwood’s version, she has acquired a dual identity, both “celebrated murderess” (“but what is there to celebrate about murder?” she wonders) and model prisoner who – with an echo of The Handmaid’s Tale – is brought into the prison governor’s domestic sphere to wait on his wife and her circle of friends.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... ret-atwood
What do we think, ladies? Worth a look?
It's 6 episodes of approx. 45 min each.
I think I might read the book as well.
