Sacred Country

<p><b>From the author of <i>The Gustav Sonata</i></b><br><br>At the age of six Mary Ward the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk has a revelation: '<i>I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' </i>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.<br><br><b>Over a million Rose Tremain books sold</b><br><br><b>'A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' <i>Independent I</i></b><br><br><b>'There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master and she uses it to stunning effect' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie</b><br><br><b>'Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux <i>Guardian</i></b></p>