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.

About the author

Tim Pears

Product details

• Authors: Tim Pears, Pears Tim
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781408876848
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-7684-8
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The West Country Trilogy; 172 POCHE; 172 POCHE; The West Country Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Horses & ponies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary