The Horseman
Autor: | Pears, Tim |
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EAN: | 9781408876848 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 320 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 13.07.2017 |
Untertitel: | The West Country Trilogy |
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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.