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"Gritty, emotional, superb story."
Reviewed by Shayne Sawyer
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted March 10, 2004
Annemarie Zimmer was an equestrienne and Olympic contender
until she broke her neck in a jumping accident and awoke to
find her horse put to sleep. Heartbroken, she packed up and
left home for good.
Twenty years later, her life is spinning out of control
again and she returns Read more...
"Exciting character study"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 15, 2004
Eighteen year old Olympic hopeful, Annemarie Zimmer and
her beloved steed Highland Harry run the equestrian course
so effortlessly they seem more like a centaur. As they
finish the last jump Annemarie senses something is wrong.
Three weeks later, a physically broken Annemarie learns
that a bone in Read more...
SummaryA stunning new voice in American fiction, Sara Gruen makes
a masterful debut with a novel of family, tragedy,
rebirth ... and the breathtaking love of something wild.
As a world-class equestrienne and Olympic contender,
Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a
strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic
accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, her beloved
and distinctively marked horse.
Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her
dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and
abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenaged daughter
to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an
unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables -- and
where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle
veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl ... and in the
seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch.
But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a
red and white striped gelding startlingly similar to the
one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is
born that could shatter her fragile world.
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