num_pages: 321
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.
language: English
title: Sacred Country
titlecomplete: Sacred Country
genres: Drama, LGBT, Historical, Transgender, Gender, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 1512
places: England, Suffolk, England
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger
publisher: Washington Square Press