birth_place nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
liverpool , england english 1956 historical maria mccann
 maria mccann novelist , teacher
maria mccann

maria mccann is an english novelist .
she was born in liverpool in 1956 and worked as a lecturer in english at strode college , street , somerset since 1985 , until starting work with arden .
her first novel , `` as meat loves salt '' , was released in 2001 .
the story focuses on the relationship of two men , jacob cullen and christopher ferris , and is set during the english civil war .
they desert their posts in cromwell 's new model army to establish a farming commune in the countryside .
the novel was well received by readers and critics and has recently been championed by orange prize winner lionel shriver , but failed to attract what one could call widespread attention .
mccann also contributed a short story titled `` minimal '' to the anthology `` new writing 12 '' published by the british council in 2005 .
her second novel , `` the wilding '' , was published in february 2010 .
set in england in the 1670s , it is the story of a young cider-presser , jonathan dymond , his dark family secrets , and the young beggar woman he tries to help .
