The horseman / Tim Pears.
Publication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2017.Description: 302 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 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
- 823.92 23
- PR6066.E1675 H67 2017
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | PEA | Available | 065966 |
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.