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Sacred Country Rose Tremain

Sacred Country By Rose Tremain

Sacred Country by Rose Tremain


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Summary

This novel begins in rural East Anglia in 1952. At the age of six, Mary Ward has the revelation that she is in fact, someone else and will grow up to be a man eventually. One, tragic, ineradicable belief alters a life in ways unimaginable to the rest of humanity, safe within fixed genders.

Sacred Country Summary

Sacred Country by Rose Tremain

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

About Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain has written numerous plays for radio and television as well as many novels. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

Additional information

GOR000606530
9780340561553
0340561556
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
Used - Good
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton
19931007
384
Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1992
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