Book description
In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out
riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both
thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the
impact on their lives is devastating. Grace is the only child of
prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband
Robert. In a way that none of them at first understands, their destiny
comes to depend on Pilgrim's. So mutilated and traumatised is he that
even the vet who saved him wishes he hadn't. Annie refuses to have him
put down, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die too.
Then Annie hears about a man called Tom Booker, a 'whisperer' who is
said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job,
Annie sets off across the continent with Grace and Pilgrim to find him.
Under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed for ever.
Nicholas Evans was a screenwriter and film producer before writing his
first novel, The Horse Whisperer. He lives in Devon.
