Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer
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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 many of my friends were left dissapointed by the tv 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 to set of on a life learning adventure with both horse and grace in tow to try and rehabilitate the traumatised Pilgrim. Her destination is far from her New York home, its in the hills of Montana where she hopes to find the Horse whisperer, a dreamy cowboy called Tom Booker. The man who Annie believes can start to piece back together the fractured lives of both Grace and Pilgrim.
Its not just Pilgrim who's live is altered by the journey. Grace begins to see past the life which she thought she was doomed to exist in, Annie finds new emotions while away from her obsession with her magazine company and the Horse Whisperer touches more lives than just Pilgrim.Whatever your literature interest you will find the Horse Whisperer has something to offer. The gripping opening paragraph will keep you absorbed until the final word.
One of the rare books where you miss the characters once you've finished reading.WH Smith is currently (11/05/04) doing 30% off this book, bringing the price to £10.49 for both the Paper back version and also the Audio book. They also have the option online of free delivery for pick up at a WH Smith store.
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I know what you mean about missing some characters when you've finished the book! (not this book, but others)
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