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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.

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From the author of The Gustav SonataAt the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 15/06/2017
    ISBN13: 9781784705923, 978-1784705923
    ISBN10: 1784705926

    Number of Pages: 416

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    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

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