The Horseman The West Country Trilogy: Book 1

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 1911 1911. 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tim Pears, Pears Tim
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2017
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9781408876848
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-7684-8
• Anzahl Seiten: 302
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2 cm
• Serie: The West Country Trilogy > .1; 172 POCHE; 172 POCHE; The West Country Trilogy
• Themen: FICTION / Literary, First World War, Nature Writing, Horses, Thomas Hardy, WW1, Robert Macfarlane, WWI, Horses & ponies, World War I, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Michael Morpurgo, war horse, West Country; Thomas Hardy; Horses; Nature Writing; Jane Smiley; Melissa Harrison; War Horse; Michael Morpurgo; First World War; World War I; WWI; WW1; Robert MacFarlane; The Old Ways, Melissa Harrison, Jane Smiley, the old ways