Product Description
Sacred Country
Author: Rose Tremain
Format: Paperback
From the author of The Gustav Sonata
At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' So begins a 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
'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' — Salman Rushdie
'Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' — Marcel Theroux, Guardian
About the Author
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) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
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