... 'The Horse Whisperer' fell into the latter category. I had seen the film, and actually quite liked it, so I was not sure how I would enjoy the book, especially as I knew the twists and turns of the story.
I am off work at the moment, so this book had my undivided attention, and I am so ... Read review
Nicholas Evans's best-selling Horse Whisperer is a story of tragedy, soul-searching and ... more
unabashed romance. When the Graves family--13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert--is struck by tragedy, eac...
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Nicholas Evans's best-selling Horse Whisperer is a story of tragedy, soul-searching and ... more
unabashed romance. When the Graves family--13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert--is struck by tragedy, eac...
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In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is ... more
hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives and the lives o...
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Nicholas Evans's best-sellingHorse Whispereris a story of tragedy, soul-searching and ... more
unabashed romance. When the Graves family--13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert--is struck by tragedy, each ...
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Nicholas Evans's best-selling Horse Whisperer is a story of tragedy, soul-searching and ... more
unabashed romance. When the Graves family--13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert--is struck by tragedy, eac...
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Nicholas Evans's best-selling Horse Whisperer is a story of tragedy, soul-searching and ... more
unabashed romance. When the Graves family--13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert--is struck by tragedy, eac...
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Nicholas Evans's best-selling Horse Whisperer is a story of tragedy, soul-searching and ... more
unabashed romance. When the Graves family--13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert--is struck by tragedy, eac...
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In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is ... more
hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives and the lives of those who love them is devastating.
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Advantages: Brilliant narrative, well developed characters Disadvantages: I saw the film first!
Due to all of the reviews I read on here and other sites, I have an ever increasing pile of books to read. Some I anticipate more than others, and some I read just because they are the next one on the pile. 'The Horse Whisperer' fell into the latter category. I had seen the film, and actually quite liked it, so I was not sure how I would enjoy the book, especially as I knew the twists and turns of the story.
I am off work at the moment, ... ...think I was frantically skimming the odd page so I could see where the next page would take me.
Nicholas Evans is not an author whose work I am familiar with, and as this was his first novel published in the mid 1990's, I can only hope that is this is the standard he is setting, his future work is certainly worth looking out for! I assure you he is not another Jilly Cooper, combining love, sex and horses, but I assure you there are ... more
Due to all of the reviews I read on here and other sites, I have an ever increasing pile of books to read. Some I anticipate more than others, and some I read just because they are the next one on the pile. 'The Horse Whisperer' fell into the latter category. I had seen the film, and actually quite liked it, so I was not sure how I would enjoy the book, especially as I knew the twists and turns of the story.
I am off work at the moment, so this book had my undivided attention, and I am so glad that it did. I finished it yesterday, and I can honestly say I would read it again, as I am sure there are many parts I have missed because at times I think I was frantically skimming the odd page so I could see where the next page would take me.
Nicholas Evans is not an author whose work I am familiar with, and as this was his first novel published in the mid 1990's, I can only hope that is this is the standard he is setting, his future work is certainly worth looking out for! I assure you he is not another Jilly Cooper, combining love, sex and horses, but I assure you there are plenty of all three, just in a more subtle manner!
The story initally focuses on the MacLean family. Mother Annie is a successful writer whose drive and ambition have lead to her being headhunted for the position of editor with a high profile magazine. Her husband Robert, is a lawyer, and seems to pretty much follow Annie's lead where the family are concerned. They have a daughter called Grace, who is the focus of their attention when they are at home, and she is even more precious as they have never been able to have another child to complete their family.
Grace is an amiable child who loves to ride her newly purchased horse Pilgrim at the home they have away from the city. Their idyllic lives are shattered when Grace goes riding on a winter's morning, and is involved in a tragic accident which leaves her friend Judith and her horse Gulliver dead, whilst Pilgrim and Grace are seriously injured, and doubts remain whether either of them will survive.
Grace recovers but has to start her teenage years as an amputee, as the injuries she sustained in the accident were so serious one of her legs had to be amputated. Annie and Robert deal with the news in different ways, and Annie is portrayed as a woman who is devoid of emotion, and looks on Robert as the weaker party when he dares to shed a tear over his daughter's loss.
Pilgrim's physical injuries indicate that he will not survive, but Annie will not hear of any suggestions that he is put to sleep, but she is unaware of the emotional trauma the horse has suffered which has turned him into a frightened, and frankly dangerous animal. Annie dismisses all of the opinions pushed on her by people who are qualified to know what to do, and sets out to cure Pilgrim, and regain the horse that Grace loved so much before the accident.
Annie hears about men who work as horse whisperers, and through word of mouth she contacts Tom Booker. He finds Annie pushy, and at first is disgusted that she would even think of putting the horse through anymore pain and suffering, so he refuses to help, but this does not put Annie off. She packs up Grace and Pilgrim and travels over 2000 miles to Tom's home to beg for his help. This is where the story really grows in depth and emotion where relationships are scrutinised, then mended or broken.
I do not want to spoil your enjoyment of the book, so I will not let on anymore of the story, needless to say, I have not given away any major plot lines!
I really bought into the characters, and felt for them every step of the way, and as a mother, I tried to put myself in Annie's position to see if I could empathise with her. The descriptions of the animals and the surroundings are so brilliant, I could see them complete in my mind's eye, and I did this as I tried to clear my mind of what I had seen in the film. I felt panic along with them, but then I felt sadness with them, and each turn of the page made me experience a different emotion.
This book is amazing, and even if you are not a fan of love stories, it is not too sickly sweet to put you off. This is what happens when you meet someone who could have been the love of your life, but someone else took their place without you knowing it. This story made me experience so many emotions, and as I finished the final page I felt quite worn out. There is tragedy, sadness, determination, love, hate, jealousy, and when you think the book might finish off neatly, you are presented with a final devastating twist in the plot.
I really loved the characters, and I think seeing the film helped me to form mental pictures of them, although I have to say Tom should have been played by a younger actor than Robert Redford, and Kristin Scott Thomas would not have been my first choice based on the characters in the book. Get this book now.....even the most macho of you!!
...is such a book.
The first book by Nicholas Evans, published in 1995, read by Clanmac4 last week. The Horse Whisperer is a novel with its fair share of tragedy, disappointment, anger, beauty and love, all neatly packaged in an incredibly passionate read. Now guys do not let the last three words put you off, I do not normally pick up love stories and then admit it on the Ciao website if it were not that good!
It is essentially a love story interspersed ... ...of her trying to regain the love and trust of a horse that was severely injured with her in a terrible accident. The child is Grace, the horse is a black Stallion named Pilgrim.
Grace and Pilgrim whilst out riding one winters day with a friend are hit by an out of control Truck, the horse is very badly injured, the girl loses a leg and her friend and her horse are killed. The novel is about Grace’s mother Annie’s fight to bring her daughter ...
clanmac4 20.02.2001
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Advantages: A wonderful read that you lose yourself in Disadvantages: It comes to and end
...lot! It tells the story of a 13 year old girl who, whilst out riding her beloved horse Pilgrim, is hit by a 40 ton truck. Grace and Pilgrim survive but sadly her friend dies along with her horse (I did say it was sad). Grace loses a leg at the knee and becomes extremely withdrawn. Pilgrim is treated for his injuries but is so traumatised by the whole accident that he won't let anyone near him and turns very aggressive. Grace's mother, Annie, is a ... ...off to Montana to the horse whisperer’s ranch, but Grace is not at all happy about the situation and makes no secret of it.. She makes it very difficult for her Mum and they become even more distant towards each other (in Grace’s eyes her Mum always puts business before her). _My Opinion_ This is a very descriptive book and you easily loose yourself in it. It’s a wonderful story of the courage of a little girl and her horse. The author manages to ...
jinxyjo 12.08.2009
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...is so much better than the film of it would suggest. I was moved to tears by this novel, and I think everyone will be able to relate to the characters in it. I really felt for Grace, the girl who the novel is based around, whose horse is injured, and the character of the horse whisperer himself is just beautiful. The decelopment of the mother from hard city woman to loving family mother is also beautiful. As with 'The Loop', I have found Evans to ...
charl169 12.07.2000
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Advantages: Amazing, absorbing read Disadvantages: Can't get your nose out of the book
Not just a tale for the horse lover, this book contains many different genres, from adventure to romance. Nicholas Evans has an amazing narrative talent and keeps the reader enthralled from chapter to chapter. He can describe events so you can picture them clearly in your own head and brings the characters to life. You feel their despair, love and sadness, aswell as their joy and happiness. The film does not do this book justice and I along with ... ...version of the Horse Whisperer. The story is off a young girl Grace and her horse Pilgrim. The opening chapter depicts a scene which leave both horse and rider in a traumatized state. Both mentally and physically. Graces Mother, Annie a city worker who has little time for family life let alone an injured animal, belives that if Pilgrim should die then part of her daughter would die too. The guilt she feels over her daughters injury compells Annie ...
Josiejoe 11.05.2004
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Advantages: An unforgetably moving book Disadvantages: At the beginning some boring chapters, but which emphasises the end
The Horse Whisperer is not only a book for horselovers, but for any human beeing on Earth. It is a story about people, about feelings, but mainly about human redemption and breaking out of the daily problems which everyone of us faces. The beginning of the book might seems a little bit irrelevant and even boring, but in the end you realise what it was emphasising the final chapters. One of the great things about the book is how each character's mind ... ...taking part of the lifes of eachcharacter. It is really one of the best book I ever read and it is a MUST READ book! Its love story it's fascinatingly believable and the redemption of the mutilated horse and the accidentated girl is very moving. Another great thing about the book is that in a way it connects with each people's life. It reflects our deepest toughts, dreams and desires and it helps us to realize what we are truly are and what we truly ...
dianutzika 17.03.2007
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