Atwood has gone to a great deal of trouble to reconstruct Canada in 1843, when the murders took place, and 1859, when the doctor tries to treat Grace. I was perhaps unreasonably miffed that she made no serious attempt to give Grace a developed background in Northern Ireland - just a village around a harbour near-ish to Belfast. It totally failed to ring true to me. I would like to think that Northern Irish writers who set parts of their books in Canada generally try a bit harder.
June Books 18) Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
Atwood has gone to a great deal of trouble to reconstruct Canada in 1843, when the murders took place, and 1859, when the doctor tries to treat Grace. I was perhaps unreasonably miffed that she made no serious attempt to give Grace a developed background in Northern Ireland - just a village around a harbour near-ish to Belfast. It totally failed to ring true to me. I would like to think that Northern Irish writers who set parts of their books in Canada generally try a bit harder.
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