TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pears,Tim
TI  - The horseman
SN  - 9781408876879
AV  - PR6066.E1675 H67 2017
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Friendship in children
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Farm life
KW  - England
KW  - Devon
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - George V, 1910-1936
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Horsemen and horsewomen
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Devon (England)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
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