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Although a work of fiction the novel is based on these factual events. Atwood constructs a narrative that sees a fictional doctor, Simon Jordan, playing detective. Although ostensibly conducting reasearch into criminal behaviour, he slowly becomes personally involved in the story of Grace and seeks to reconcile the mild mannered woman he sees with the murder of which she has been convicted. Alias Grace was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and, in 1996, won the Canadian Giller Prize.