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Riding Lessons (Mass Market Paperback)

by Sara Gruen (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; Reissue edition (14 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060580275
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060580278
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As a world-class equestrian 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, the beautiful horse she cherished. 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 teenage 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 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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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent page turner, 12 May 2004
From the terrific opening chapter where Olympic hopeful Annemarie Zimmerman has the accident which will shape her life, this book keeps you hooked. Annemarie, the narrator, is not always likeable but the reader cannot help being swept along with her as she struggles to make a new start in life, understand her family and come to terms with what happened 18 years ago. Gruen has got a suberb writing style, literate but non-flashy, fluent and with an excellent sense of pacing so the action never flags. She is also superb at conveying the magic of horses without this book being in any sense 'horsey'. Though much of the action of the book is concerned with Annemarie's search to find out who her rescue horse really is this is a story about people and their relationships to each other and it is very well done indeed. Some of the charecterisation could have been deeper - Eva the 15 year old daughter is tiresomely one note in her never-ending stroppiness - and Gruen veers into straight cliches at times - such as the French riding instructor who can whip up a superb meal just like that. Even so, this is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Reccomended.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Great first chapter, pity about the next twenty, 12 Oct 2009
After a terrific opening this novel soon deteriorates into an unlikely run of bad luck and bad writing. The plot revolves around a tragic riding accident followed, years later, by a failed marriage, dysfunctional daughter, dying father, cold-hearted mother and assorted equine-related hangers-on.

The characters are one-dimensional and unlikable, especially the self-obsessed narrator. The horsey bits are mostly good but the rest, the majority of the book, is a whole muck-heap load of irritating nonsense interspersed with trivial detail. Well that's just my opinion. Some people seem to like it, and Gruen's subsequent novel, Water For Elephants, was a US best-seller, but I think she'd learnt a bit more about writing by then.
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