Alias Grace Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Margaret Atwood (Author, Narrator), Sarah Gadon (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale

Soon to be a Netflix Original series, Alias Grace takes listeners into the life of one of the most notorious women of the 19th century.

It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.

An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?

Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.

Cover photo by Sabrina Lantos, courtesy of Halfire Entertainment. The miniseries Alias Grace is a Halfire Entertainment Production made for CBC and Netflix.

Listening Length

15 hours and 57 minutes
Author

Margaret Atwood
Narrator

Sarah Gadon, see all
Audible release date

Nov. 2 2017
Language

English
Publisher

Audible Studios
ASIN

B075RPBLVW
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	15 hours and 57 minutes
Author	Margaret Atwood
Narrator	Margaret Atwood, Sarah Gadon
Audible.ca Release Date	November 02 2017
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B075RPBLVW
Best Sellers Rank	#691 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #5 in Historical Mysteries #7 in Historical Thrillers (Books) #14 in Historical Mystery

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Very good story that kept my interest

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 21, 2020

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I wanted an audio book to read this and downloaded it and it said a free download but when you get into it the audio was only free for a month then you have to pay. I already have a audio free program and don't want to pay for another one. I read the book and found it very good but then cancelled the audio program. I wish I could have downloaded the audio book to my free audio program but did not know how too. Everything worked well and I enjoyed but will stick to my other audio program I have. Thanks!

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BVK

Not for everybody.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 19, 2019

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Margaret Atwood has become such a famous Canadian author that I thought I should try one of her books. As I expected, it was a bit expensive (c $11). I don't feel that I got value for money spent. The first 12% was frustrating author's self indulgence: a very long lyrical poem or song, a too-long annoying section of stream of consciousness, and a nightmarish delirium of madness. At the time I read these introductory parts of the book, I could not know their relevance to the story as the story not started yet. All in all, the introductory section was laid on with a trowel and just plain annoying.
The story that followed the introduction was expertly written and a real joy to read, just what I expected to find from a famous author. Unfortunately, by that time it was too late; the frustration and annoyance from the beginning section tainted the whole novel for me.
As a Canadian, I am proud that Margaret Atwood's writing has drawn international praise and I am sure the acclaim is well deserved. Unfortunately her style is not for me.

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Don G.

An accurate and interesting sketch of mid-1800's life

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 5, 2013

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I have never read Margaret Atwood before. She’s Canadian, after all, not a classical American or European author. But now I see, that was a mistake. Alias Grace is one of the best books I have ever read. It is the first of Atwood’s many novels I will be reading.

It is an accurate portrayal, among other things, of a time in Ontario before automobiles, electricity, cinema and paved rural highways. It is a retelling of the double murder in Richmond Hill in the eighteen fifties for which one perpetrator was hanged and the other, Grace Marks, while sentenced to death, initially, was commuted to life imprisonment. The question throughout the book: was she really guilty at all? It is a fictional account but rings veraciously and realistically true to the reader. There’s a little violence and a bit of romance or maybe I should just classify it as eroticism but it holds ones interest from page to page. A really interesting read.

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C. Jordan

The Epitome of Historical Fiction and Mystery

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 28, 2019

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This novel was, for me, the perfect combination of historical fiction, mystery, and psychological thriller. While the story does move slowly, it leaves the reader in suspense as it builds layer after layer of detail that makes you question everything you think you know about Grace. There is, of course, a great deal of social commentary on the place of women and the various classes, but it is presented in such a way that it adds to the story, rather than coming off as preaching. I love that she leaves it to the reader to decide whether Grace is guilty or innocent. Or, just maybe, like most of us, she’s both.

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Nicole Salter

This book does not disappoint. It's a stunning portrait of a woman caught ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 21, 2016

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Wow...This book does not disappoint. It's a stunning portrait of a woman caught up in forces much greater than herself, and reveals how women used to have to contort themselves in every way to manage in a hostile world. I'm glad Dr. Jordan seems to have got his comeuppance but really there are no winners here, just a bone-chilling and very sad tale that nevertheless is uplifting. Told in Atwood's magical storytelling style. Quite a shock reading this after The Heart Goes Last - they are so different, yet so similar in capturing the depths of the human heart.

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Fudd

took a long time to arrive

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 21, 2020

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Book was in good condition nut ordered July 24 arrived Azugust 20

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Ana Maria Vesga Garci

Good product

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 21, 2020

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Amanda

Meh

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 28, 2018

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Huge Margaret Atwood fan, and I also love historical fiction. But not a huge fan of this book. The book spends a lot of time on letters being written between tertiary characters, I'm not convinced they actually added to the story in any significant way. It took me 3/4 of the book to get into the story. I probably only persevered because it was a book club choice. I'm hoping the TV series plumps it up to make it more tolerable.

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Seaside Sarah

True story with an unexpected (fictional) twist.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 24, 2017

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I loved this book. I found it utterly absorbing in how Grace's story was narrated, it sucked me in and held me down. It is told, in her own words, through a series of interview she does with a Doctor. You get a rough idea about the crime she has supposedly committed, and then it goes back to the beginning of her life, and how she reached that point - with the details slowly revealed. It is interspaced with letters that were written to and from Dr's, the clergy and judiciary who are debating whether she is fit to be released, as well as a sub story about the Dr talking to her. It is based on a true story and the ending is guess work, but I really enjoyed how Atwood was tied up. Don't expect the expected in this story though - there is a sting in the tail! We read this in book group and had a lot to discuss. We talked about fiction using real life as a basis, is it a good idea filling in the blanks in stories, we also discussed the treatment of women in bygone age, has this changed at all, and whether those who are in a position of trust and authority are frequently more perverse, criminal and immoral than those they are passing judgement on.

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Kellie Bird

Unputdownable and Unforgettable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 19, 2018

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Not many stories affect me in the way this one has. Grace is an enigma! As deep as a well and as strange as a blue rabbit. She has interrupted my life and my view of her has changed with the pages. I can't decide how I feel about this story and I think that is how Atwood has intended it to be. She neither wishes the reader to like or dislike Grace, only to be confused, as those who judged her were. The writing is so effortless, each word is perfectly placed, the language creates clear pictures in my mind. I am watching the Alias Grace series and thrilled how closely it matches the book. Atwood paints such a clear picture that when I watch the show I feel as though I've seen It before. Everything is how I'd imagined it to be. I love this book. I love this story. I can not wait to read more Atwood. This is a novel I shall never forget.

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A Gripping Yarn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2023

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Shamefully my first Atwood in decades. I now know what all the fuss is about as she can certainly write beautifully and I won't be leaving it so long before trying some more of her work.

This novel is based on true historical events and tells the story of Grace Marks an infamous murderess (or was she!) of the 19th century.

I certainly learnt a lot about religious beliefs and practices of the time and the changing attitudes towards mental illness.

However I did find some aspects of the sub plot a little hard to believe but maybe that was all part of Atwood's plan to add an extra layer of very dark humour to the story. I will leave it up to you, the potential future reader to decide.

Gigi

Tough to start but worth it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 16, 2022

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As with many books, you need to adapt to style of writing, persevere and then you wonder why you worried. With MA (&similar writers), trust that you will get over that "hump" .....they are brilliant authors for a reason.
So......thought provoking, fascinatingly sad actually......was she schizophrenic? Was she duplicitous? What would you have done? Was wearing a dead person's dress proof of murder or instead a sign of life at the time?
Many people will interpret in different ways....but that's the brilliance of an author.
As for Netflix version, I'll be interested....Will it be my interpretation/ view OR a different one of equal resonance?
Whatever, a great read, just like THMT, and thank goodness we have the opportunity to read, in between the not-so-different slavery of motherhood......which is unpaid.

Mrs C Hutchinson.

A really engrossing book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 23, 2018

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First of all I listened to this book on Audible and the narration by Sarah Gadon was superb. A gentle and relaxed style and a soothing tone which gave the impression of Grace as a sensible and considered girl but did not however entirely assuage the doubt in her innocence. The story itself is based on the true murder of a gentleman and his housekeeper ‘with benefits’ for which the male servant is hanged and Grace has a life sentence served in jail and lunatic asylums. We learn much of Graces life story through her conversations with a doctor who hopes through new techniques to get to the truth of what really happened and perhaps secure a pardon, and through newspaper reports from the time and third party descriptions. The short pieces of poetry and writings interspersed throughout the book were appropriate to the chapter and a reminder to read the works of some of the authors again. There was a real feeling of country and time in this book and I was totally engrossed and highly recommend it.

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