Sacred Country

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Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, this classic novel about the trans experience was extraordinarily ahead of its time We're all something else inside... 1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation- 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' And so begins a heroic struggle to change gender. Moving from the claustrophobic rural community of the 1950s to London in the swinging Sixties and beyond to the glitter of America in the Seventies, Sacred Country is the story of a journey to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.

Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Islands of Mercy. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

A remarkable novel * The Times * 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 *