Maria McCann

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Maria McCann


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Liverpool, England, The United Kingdom
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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. The story focuses on the relationship of two men, Jacob Cullen and Christopher Ferris, and is set during the English Civil War. They desert their posts in Cromwell’s New Model Army to establish a farming commune in the countryside. The novel was well received by readers and critics and has recently been championed by Orange Prize winner Lionel Shriver, but failed to attract what one could call widespread attention.

McCann also contributed a short story titled Minimal to the anthology New Writing 12 pu
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“I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.”
Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

“Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant.

Speak to me.”
Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
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“I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.”
Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt

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