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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.

©2017 Tim Pears (P)2018 Isis Publishing Ltd Historical Fiction Fiction Literary Fiction Genre Fiction

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Fascinating when I could understand the narrator's heavy brogue. It added character but subtracted some of the narrative even when replayed. Just too heavily accented for me to get.

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This story about a carter's son -- an Owen Meany sort of character-- on a turn of the century (19th) West Country estate is beautifully narrated.

Wonderful tale, beautifully narrated

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The narrator is easily understood, but some of the deeply accented dialogue is difficult to follow. Fun story.

Dialogue between characters is difficult to understand.

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