ABSTRACT
Rose Tremain published her first novel in 1976 and was one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Writers in 1983, but it was only in the 1990s that she began to attract the kind of wide readership that her talents, already recognised by the critics and the list-compilers, deserved. Tremain was born in London in 1943 and educated at the University of East Anglia and the Sorbonne. As well as being a novelist, she is also an accomplished short-story writer and throughout her career has written plays for radio and TV. Brutally misunderstood by her father, unable to communicate with a mother drifting into mental illness, Mary leaves her rural Suffolk home as an adolescent and moves to London to begin the painful process of her reinvention. Ostensibly 'about' transsexuality, Sacred Country uses a much wider canvas—particularly the intersecting.
