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Absolutely and Forever

A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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From the bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

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The Way I Found Her

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

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Sacred Country

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Funny, absorbing and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year

Sacred Country is a book that we give to our friends and are glad to have read…it makes us look forward to Ms. Tremain’s other books with hungry pleasure

We're all something else inside... 
 
1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation: 'I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.' And so begins a heroic struggle to change gender. Moving from the claustrophobic rural community of the 1950s to London in the swinging Sixties and beyond to the glitter of America in the Seventies, Sacred Country is the story of a journey to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, this classic novel about the trans experience was extraordinarily ahead of its time

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

Rose Tremain's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music &amp; Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina in France (Sacred Country) and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata). Her most recent novel is Lily, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

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