The

The Horseman

By - Pears, Tim
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Thorpe, Charnwood, Leicester, 2017
ISBN 10 - 1444833588
ISBN 13 - 9781444833584
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Great Britain
Shelf No - 10
Call Number - 823.914 PEA
Physical Description - 292 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Book Information
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, with eyes the colour of blackberries, Leo dreams of a job on the master's stud farm. As ploughs furrow the hard January fields, the master's daughter, young Miss Charlotte, shocks the estate's tenants by wielding a gun at the annual shoot. One day Leo is breaking a colt for his father when a boy in breeches and riding boots appears - and peering under the stranger's hat, Leo discovers Charlotte. So a friendship begins, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries - boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as the couple approach adolescence.

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