Book description
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.
Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have won many awards, including the
Orange Prize (
The Road Home
), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and
Silence
), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger
(Sacred Country
).Restoration
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in1989 and made into a film in
1995. Her short story, 'Moth', was also filmed (as the award-winning Ricky
) by François Ozon in 2009. Her most recent novel, Trespass
, was a Richard and Judy Bookclub Choice. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in
2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard
Holmes.
