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. 'Hypnotic...curiously beautiful and strikingly original' Spectator
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 07 Oct 1993
ISBN 10: 0340561556
ISBN 13: 9780340561553
Book Overview: This novel also won the Prix Femina Etranger.
Prizes: Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1992.