Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile Av Alice Jolly

<b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019</b><br><br><b>Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019</b><b><br><br>2019 </b><b>Walter Scott Prize Academy </b><b>recommendation</b><i><br><br>If you tell a story oft enough</i><br><i>So it become true<br><br></i>As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.<br><i><br></i>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.<br><i><br></i>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.<br><br>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.<i></i>