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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: she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's 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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