The Horseman Av Tim Pears

<b>From the prize-winning author of <i>In the Place of Fallen Leaves </i>comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in Devon in 1911</b>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.