Sacred Country

From the author of The Gustav SonataAt 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

ISBN:	9781784705923
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	15 Jun 2017
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	24312
Number of pages:	xv, 393
Weight:	296g
Height:	130mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	27mm

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