Sacred Country cover art

Sacred Country

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Sacred Country

By: Rose Tremain
Narrated by: Harrison Knights
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

We're all something else inside....

1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field with her family, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.

So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender. Moving from the claustrophobic rural community of the 1950s to London in the swinging '60s and beyond to the glitter of America in the '70s, Sacred Country is the story of a journey to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.

©2011 Rose Tremain (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Colour cover art
Music and Silence cover art
Moon Palace cover art
An Imaginative Experience cover art
Owls Do Cry cover art
East of the Sun cover art
The Long Gaze Back cover art
The Stories cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
This was interesting and relevant, but not necessarily an enjoyable read. I didn’t like this as much as some of the writer’s other novels. I wasn’t too keen on the narration.

An important book about mental health

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
this was one of the best audio books I have listened to. A story about ordinary people living ordinary lives brought together in a way that kept me interested and engaged throughout.

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is a must for everyone to read, it is about a transgender girl , but the whole book is excellent. Everyone involved is interesting, The story sweeps you along and is recommended. It will change your views about people born in the wrong body. Harrison Knights is absolutely brilliant at reading the book.

Brilliant Book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This story was well read and Harrison Knights does a beautiful rendition of Walter’s song. Wish he hadn’t attempted the South African accent though...

Beautiful story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The introduction to this book was too longwinded and unnecessary and nearly put me off continuing with the book. The reader was rather miserable and droney undermining the adventurous emotional dilemma of the characters. The story was brave and considered.

Sacred country

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Story is quite good, but narration not the best. I got used to it in the end

Narrator’s voice hard to listen to

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story itself is good. But I felt that the telling of it was just too long and drawn out. Far too much waffle, that made it quite hard to keep going with listening to it. I did finish it but I was willing it to end sooner. Which is a shame as I feel if it was compressed somewhat, it would be a great book.

perform wise, I enjoyed it.

Rather Long

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It's not as engaging as her historical novels and I found it hard to like any of the characters. It's a poignant story and not an uplifting one. The narrator's efforts to rerecord lines haven't been edited out.

OK

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Listening to this book, you would think it was hundreds of years ago. The story of a young boy, trapped in a girls body. It charts his life, plus his family and friends. It’s very slow going, but with huge issues.
It gave me a new found sympathy of what transgender people have to deal with.
But it made me very sad about all the mental health issues everyone had.
Definitely worth a listen, for a glimpse back in time, with very dysfunctional families

An interesting listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Having expected a rather colourless tale of gender reassignment, I was delighted to be presented with a wide-ranging, nay, rollicking romp through the first 30-odd years of the current queen’s reign. Startlingly enjoyable!🐝

Surprisingly uplifting tour de force

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews