Sacred Country

Sacred Country
First edition (UK)
Author Rose Tremain
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Sinclair Stevenson (UK)
Scribner (US)
Publication date
 1992 (UK), 1993 (US)
Media type Print, audio & eBook
Pages 320
ISBN 1-85619-118-4

Sacred Country is a novel by English author Rose Tremain, it was published in 1992 by Sinclair Stevenson[1] and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize[2] and Prix Femina Etranger.[3] It has been compared to Virginia Woolf's Orlando.[4]

Plot introduction

"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".[5]

Reception

Positive review extracts on the back cover of the 2002 Vintage edition :

  • "Hypnotic...Curiously beautiful and strikingly original" - Spectator
  • "Brilliant...A strong, complex, unsentimental novel" - Times Literary Supplement
  • "Rose Tremain writes comedy that can break your heart...Funny absorbing and quite original. I've read nothing to touch it this year" - Literary Review

Stephen Dobyns writes for the New York Times, "a book that makes us feel good about the state of fiction in an uncertain market"[6]

Novelist Lynne Freed observes "The writing... is sheer delight. It is skilled, intelligent storytelling at its best".[7]

Film adaptation

Filmmaker Jan Dunn has acquired the film rights to the novel and is adapting the screenplay.[8] Other sources state that Tremain herself is adapting it in three parts for television.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/rose-tremain/sacred-country.htm Fantastic Fiction
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-12-01. Previous winners - fiction | James Tait Black Prize winners | People
  3. ↑ http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/121,prix-femina-roman-etranger.html Prix Femina - Roman Etranger
  4. ↑ http://books.simonandschuster.com/Sacred-Country/Rose-Tremain/9780671886097 Sacred Country | Book by Rose Tremain - Simon & Schuster
  5. ↑ Back cover of 2002 Vintage edition
  6. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/23/nnp/tremain-country.html Muddling Through, Date: April 11, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
  7. ↑ The Best Novels of the Nineties by Linda Parent Lesher, page 249, ISBN 0786407425
  8. ↑ http://unitedagents.co.uk/jan-dunn Jan Dunn | United Agents
  9. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/features/musicsilence/ Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
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