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Maria McCann is an English novelist. Biography. McCann was born in Liverpool in 1956 and worked as a lecturer in English at Strode College, Street, Somerset since 1985, until starting work with Arden. Her first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was released in 2001.
Maria McCann is primarily a historical novelist whose novels explore power struggles, denial, obsession and self-deception; she is particularly interested in the role of religion in shaping perception and in the gap between official narratives and lived reality.
Nov 22, 2010 · School teacher Maria McCann did her homework when writing this erotic, historical novel about the English Civil War. Lionel Shriver says she couldn't stop reading about this torrid romance...
Jan 1, 2001 · Maria McCann has written the most beautifully historically accurate story about two soldiers in Oliver Cromwell's army who quite unexpectedly fall in love. The story is at times savage and grisly in war and tender and heartbreaking at times.
Maria McCann is an English novelist. She was born in Liverpool in 1956 and worked as a lecturer in English at Strode College, Street, Somerset since 1985, until starting work with Arden. Her first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was released in 2001.
Apr 28, 2011 · Maria McCann. HarperCollins UK, Apr 28, 2011 - Fiction - 544 pages. A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. ‘An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with]...
Maria McCann is the author of As Meat Loves Salt (Fourth Estate, 2001) which was an Economist Book of the Year and The Wilding (Faber, 2010) which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and chosen as a Richard and Judy book club choice, and most recently Ace, King, Knave, chosen by Hilary Mantel as one of the best books of the year in the Observer.
Maria McCann is primarily a historical novelist whose novels explore power struggles, denial, obsession and self-deception; she is particularly interested in the role of religion in shaping perception and in the gap between official narratives and lived reality.
Jan 1, 2003 · British author McCann has set it during the period of the mid–17th-century English Civil War, and incarnated the righteous as well as barbaric energies of that time in her protagonist Jacob Cullen: a brawny, brooding outcast whose forbidden love ennobles, engulfs, and all but destroys him.
Jan 1, 2001 · Maria McCann. As meat loves salt Hardcover – January 1, 2001. by Maria McCann (Author) 4.0 520 ratings. See all formats and editions. In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror.
