Sacred Country

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.

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"A remarkable novel... . The product of a truly original mind, whose inventions are magically unforseeable." - "The Times" <br>"Hypnotic... Curiously beautiful and strikingly original." - "Spectator" <br>"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" <br>"Brilliant... . A strong, complex, unsentimental novel." - "TLS"

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Rose Tremain won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country), 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).

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