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A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Nicholas Evans
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- Plaza & Janes, Éd. de la Seine, Corgi Books
- Editions
- 75
- Language
- Italian, Swedish, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9788382023954
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“There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.”
Nicholas Benbow Evans was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, son of Anthony Evans, director of a motor engineering company, and Eileen, née Whitehouse. He was educated at Bromsgrove School, where he was head boy. He served as a teacher in Senegal with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas for a year, after which he earned a first in law at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. Following graduation he worked as a reporter for the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Evening Chronicle before moving to London Weekend Television where he worked on Weekend World and The London Programme and was executive producer of The South Bank Show from 1982 to 1984. During this time he also wrote and adapted screenplays for television
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