Sacred Country Paperback by Rose Tremain

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Books (2017-07-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781784705923
• Item Weight: 331.13 grams
• Dimensions: 7.78 x 5.1 x 1.01 cm

From the author of The Gustav Sonata

At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' So begins a 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.

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

About the Author

Rose Tremain won the 1999 Whitbread Novel Award (Music & Silence), the Sunday Express Book of the Year and the Booker Prize Shortlist (Restoration), The Dylan Thomas Short Story Award (The Colonel’s Daughter), a Giles Cooper Award (for the play Temporary Shelter) and the Angel Literary Award (twice). Her books have been translated into
14 languages with bestsellers in Britain, North America and France.