
Grace is a book with many themes and ideas. It is set around Grace a film reviewer for a womens magazine who finds herself the victim of stalking, when an obsessed fan with erotomania fixates on her, this is the catalyst for a story that goes way beyond that of a thriller.
Grace was named by her father an anthropologist who is famous for discovering the skeleton of a woman in the outback and which he believes challenges the "Out of Africa" theory. The story is told from both his and Grace's perspective and so unfolds a tale that takes on many modern topics including Detention Centres, British orphans, aboriginals vs anthropologists rights, feminism and much more. You would think with all these topics that it would be too much, but Drewe manages to introduce them to us slowly and with not much intrusion and weaves them into the story so they all fit together neatly.
I really enjoyed this book and would rate it an 8.5 out of ten

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