- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Sex change, Gender identity
Mary Ward, at age six, realizes that she is a boy and not a girl. She searches for three decades to find her identity.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Rose Tremain
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- SCEPTRE, Scribner, VINTAGE (RAND)
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099422037
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First sentence
“On February 15th, 1952, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the nation fell silent for two minutes in honour of the dead king.”
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