Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
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Author: Alice Jolly ISBN: 9781783525508
Publisher: Unbound Publication: June 14, 2018
Imprint: Unbound Language: English
Author: Alice Jolly
ISBN: 9781783525508
Publisher: Unbound
Publication: June 14, 2018
Imprint: Unbound
Language: English

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019

'A lyrical tour de force' Guardian

Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation

If you tell a story oft enough
So it become true

As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.

She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart.

Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history.

In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019

'A lyrical tour de force' Guardian

Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation

If you tell a story oft enough
So it become true

As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.

She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart.

Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history.

In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.

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