The Hearts of Horses
Book description
In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss's doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war in Europe, and he glimpses beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but determined…
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1 author picked The Hearts of Horses as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Voice, time, and place are perfectly portrayed in The Hearts of Horses.
If you love horses as I do, you will love this story, and if you don't, you are bound to love these engaging characters as they struggle to make ends meet in the beautiful remote county of 1917, eastern Oregon.
If this story of the connection between people and people and horses doesn't play your heartstrings, nothing will. I love novels that practically bury me in time and place. If I can’t go there in person, let me do so in a truly well-written story.
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