by RoseTremain (Author)
At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others also strive to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0099422034
ISBN 13: 9780099422037
Book Overview: 'A remarkable novel - the product of a truly original mind, whose inventions are magically unforseeable' The Times