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The Horseman : The West Country Trilogy

Author: Tim Pears
SKU: 9781408876848

Kshs 1,250.00

From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in Devon in 19111911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon-Somerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter.

Skinny and pale, Leo dreams of a job on the estate’s stud farm. He is breaking a colt for his father when a boy dressed in a Homburg, breeches and riding boots appears. Peering under the stranger’s hat, he discovers Miss Charlotte, the Master’s daughter.

And so begins a friendship between the children, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries – boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 320 pages

ISBN : 9781408876848

Published : 13 Jul 2017

Author : Tim Pears

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Size : 129 x 197 x 21 (mm)

Weight : 230g

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