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Molly Gloss
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Publisher | Pan | ||
ISBN | 978-033046950 | ||
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Selina
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Synopsis
In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss' doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war in Europe, and he glimpses beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but determined girl with a serious knowledge of horses. So begins the irresistable tale of Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. Along the way, Martha helps a German family, ostracised by the community, to save their horses, gentles another horse for a dying man - a last gift to his young son - and gradually earns the respect and admiration of her new neighbours. With elegant sweetness and a pitch-perfect sense of western life, The Hearts of Horses is a remarkable a story about how people and animals make connections and touch each other's lives in the most unexpected and profound ways.
Review
An easy read and quite touching book about 1900's West America and the farming communities that inhabited it.
The author gives you a clear insight into the lifestyle of the times, and it is surprising how accepting people were despite the hardships they were facing themselves. As the story develops you grow to like the main character Martha who just wants to live a simple life with the horses but becomes part of the community as time goes on.
The story is written in such an in depth way that the author could well be telling her own life story or that of her family, which makes it a charming book to read.
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