The Horse Whisperere by Nicholas Evans (Film Tie-In Paperback) Corgi (1998)

THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans

In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a 40-ton truck jack-kniofes out of control hitting a young girl out riding her horse. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact of the ordeal on their lives and on the lives of those who love them is devastating.

Grace is the only child of prominent New York magazine editor Annie Graves and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way which none of them at first understands their destiny comes to depend on Pilgrim's recovery. So mutilated and traumatized is the horse that even the vet who saved his life now wishes he hadn't. And yet Annie refuses to hasve him destroyed, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die too.

She hears about a manin Montana, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoned her job, Annie set off across the continent with Grace and Pilgrim to find him. The man's name is Tom Booker and he lives on the Rockey Mountain Front, a place of daunting beauty. Here, under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed forever.....

 

This 1998 Corgo paperback is a FILM TIE-IN with the hit Touchstone movie starring Robert Redford.