Sacred Country

Sacred Country

by RoseTremain (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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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

Media Reviews
A remarkable novel * The Times *
A major book * Daily Telegraph *
Tremain is superb * Independent *
Funny, absorbing and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year * Literary Review *
Sacred Country is a book that we give to our friends and are glad to have read...it makes us look forward to Ms. Tremain's other books with hungry pleasure * New York Times *
Author Bio
Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk