num_pages: 469
description: A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermot, was hanged in 1843. Dr Simon Jordan attempts to uncover the truth.
language: English
title: Alias Grace
titlecomplete: Alias Grace
characters: Grace Marks
genres: Historical, Literature, Crime, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canada, Mystery
ratings_count: 139369
places: Canada, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Raincoast Book Dist Ltd