![]() ![]() The extracts are even more poignant and heart-breaking when you find out that Grace was real, although most of the other characters are purely fictional. I love historical fiction and I found it very interesting that Donnelly used extracts from Grace's original letters (the book is based on an actual murder that took place at Big Moose Lake at the turn of the century). While working at a nearby hotel, she discovers the letters of a young woman found drowned in a lake, Grace Brown, and uncovers the tragic story of her murder. Set at the turn of the century, in the Great North Woods in northeastern America, this is the story of Mattie, a girl fascinated by books and words who feels weighed down by her familial responsibilities she is torn between going to university and pursuing a romance with the charismatic Royal Loomis. ![]()
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