A Fictionalized Account Of Grace Marks, A Maid Who Murdered Her Employer And His Mistress In Canada In 1843. A Stablehand Who Was Her Accomplice And Who Claimed She Put Him Up To It Was Hung For The Crime, While She Ended Up In A Lunatic Asylum. The Novel Analyzes The Question: Was She Actually Less Guilty, Crazy, Or Smarter? Margaret Atwood.