Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2431 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
Although only six years old at the time, Mary Ward will never forget the two minutes silence held in honour of King George VI. For she has a revelation - a mistake has been made - she is not a girl at all - she is a boy and will grow up to be a man. So begins the soul-searching struggle to become Martin Ward from a wretchedly miserable childhood in rural East Anglia to Nashville, Tennessee, home of country music via Earl's Court. But this is more than the saga of a sex change, it is also the story of the fascinatingly disturbed eccentrics who are part of Mary's life - her family and friends. A highly original and complex novel, both profound and humorous. (Kirkus UK)

Daily Telegraph
‘A major book’

Spectator
‘Hypnotic…Curiously beautiful and strikingly original’