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The Horseman
- Author
- Tim Pears
- Narrator
- Jonathan Keeble
- Publisher
- Isis Audio
- Publish Date
- 1 July 2018
- Run Time
- 7 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical fiction
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- Author
- Tim Pears
- Narrator
- Jonathan Keeble
- Duration
- 7 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 July 2018
- ISBN
- 9781445075020
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Isis Audio
- Genre
- Historical fiction
Synopsis
1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon-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 estate'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 stranger's hat, he discovers Miss Charlotte, the Master's daughter. And so begins a friendship between the children, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries – boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.
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