Sacred Country

Sacred Country

by RoseTremain (Author)

Synopsis

With an Introduction by Peter Tatchell We're all something else inside... 1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field with her family, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender. Moving from the claustrophobic rural community of the 1950s to London in the swinging Sixties and beyond to the glitter of America in the Seventies, Sacred Country is the story of a journey to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world. Over a million Rose Tremain books sold `A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent I `There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish Times `Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect' The Times `Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie `Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux, Guardian

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 15 Jun 2017

ISBN 10: 1784705926
ISBN 13: 9781784705923
Book Overview: 25 years on from its first publication this classic novel from the Orange prize-winning author of The Road Home and Restoration is reissued with a bold new look

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