Horseman [text(large print)]
Pears, Tim, 1956-2017
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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. And so a friendship begins, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries - boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.
Main title:
Horseman [text(large print)] / Tim Pears.
Author:
Pears, Tim, 1956-, author
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Leicester : Charnwood, 2017.
Collation:
304 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Bloomsbury.
ISBN:
9781444833584 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Local class:
LP
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
358867