Sacred Country

Author(s): Rose Tremain

Fiction

"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."


Product Information

"A remarkable novel" The Times "A major book" Daily Telegraph "Hypnotic... Curiously beautiful and strikingly original" Spectator "Brilliant. A strong, complex, unsentimental novel" Times Literary Supplement "Rose Tremain writes comedy that can break your heart-Funny, absorbing and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year" Literary Review

General Fields

  • : 9781784705923
  • : 82105
  • : Booktopia
  • : 0.336
  • : 01 March 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : 01 January 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 416
  • : Paperback
  • : Rose Tremain