Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile

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Mary 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, evoking 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.     SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize  2019 2019  Walter Scott Prize Academy  recommendation  

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Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016. She also won the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in 2014 for one of her short stories, 'Ray the Rottweiler'. She has published seven novels, What the Eye Doesn't See, If Only You Knew, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, A Saint in Swindon, From Far Around They Saw Us Burn, The Matchbox Girl, and Between the Regions of Kindness.  She has also written for The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday and The Independent, and broadcast for Radio 4.

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