The Horseman : The West Country Trilogy Paperback / softback

by Tim Pears

Part of the The West Country Trilogy series

Paperback / softback

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From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in Devon in 19111911.

In a forgotten valley on the Devonâ€“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 estateâ€™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 strangerâ€™s hat, he discovers Miss Charlotte, the Masterâ€™s daughter. And so begins a friendship between the children, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries â€“ boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.