There’s a breathless hush on the freeway tonight
as yesterday’s tomorrows file along the freshly baked concrete columns
and the chainlink fence flutters in the breeze adorned with the flowers
of those that now lay beside it.
And beyond it out in the harbour
Jerusalem’s lights still twinkle
as they have always done
freedom, liberty and hope
for everyone-
twinkle twinkle little star, rest [...]

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Through Margaret Atwood’s gritty portrayal of Grace Marks, the 18th century convicted ‘murderess’ of her master and housekeeper, it is extremely easy to see her as a wronged woman. Robbed of any means to control her own destiny, she finds herself to be entirely at the mercy of both of both circumstance and the authority [...]

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