Sacred Country
#619 of 8,085 books · #351 in Fiction
Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992).
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.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781446450284
- Genre
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial PrizeWonMajor(1992)
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