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Riding Lessons
The Riding Lessons Series (Related to this series)
- Author
- Sara Gruen
- Narrator
- Maggi-Meg Reed
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 20 November 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
An unforgettable story of a devastating accident that ends the career of an Olympic contender equestrienne and sets off a chain of events that comes to a crisis point nearly twenty years later.
As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.
Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father’s New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables—and where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl … and in the seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch.
But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter her fragile world.
Critics Review
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“[An] emotion-packed book, which is so exquisitely written it’s hard to believe that it’s also a debut.”
Booklist (starred review)
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“Gruen’s polished debut is a tale of human healing set against the primal world of horses…Amid this realistically complex generational sandwich, the book’s appealing horse scenes—depicted with unsentimental affection—help build a moving story of loss, survival and renewal.”
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Details
- Author
- Sara Gruen
- Narrator
- Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duration
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 November 2021
- ISBN
- 9798200715589
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
An unforgettable story of a devastating accident that ends the career of an Olympic contender equestrienne and sets off a chain of events that comes to a crisis point nearly twenty years later.As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father’s New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables—and where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl … and in the seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch.But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter her fragile world.
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