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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.
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
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"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)
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"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)
'A remarkable novel - the product of a truly original mind, whose inventions are magically unforseeable' The Times
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0099422034
- ISBN 13 9780099422037
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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