The horseman /
Pears, Tim,
The horseman / Tim Pears. - London : Bloomsbury, 2017. - 302 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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 1911 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, with eyes as dark as sloes, Leo dreams of a job on the Master's stud farm. As ploughs furrow the hard January fields, the Master's daughter, young Miss Charlotte, shocks the estate's tenants by wielding a gun at the annual shoot. Spring comes, Leo watches swallows build their nests, hedgerows thrum with life and days lengthen into summer. Leo 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 Charlotte.
9781408876879 1408876876 9781408876886
1910-1936
Friendship in children--Fiction.
Farm life--England--Devon--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Horsemen and horsewomen--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Devon (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
Great Britain.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
PR6066.E1675 / H67 2017
823.92
The horseman / Tim Pears. - London : Bloomsbury, 2017. - 302 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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 1911 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, with eyes as dark as sloes, Leo dreams of a job on the Master's stud farm. As ploughs furrow the hard January fields, the Master's daughter, young Miss Charlotte, shocks the estate's tenants by wielding a gun at the annual shoot. Spring comes, Leo watches swallows build their nests, hedgerows thrum with life and days lengthen into summer. Leo 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 Charlotte.
9781408876879 1408876876 9781408876886
1910-1936
Friendship in children--Fiction.
Farm life--England--Devon--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Horsemen and horsewomen--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Devon (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
Great Britain.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
PR6066.E1675 / H67 2017
823.92
