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  • Paperback: 229 pages
  • Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; Reprint edition (20 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1565126017
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565126015
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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THE EVENING OF SUNDAY May 10 in the year 1863, Hettie Childs called her son, Robey, to the house from the old fields where he walked the high meadow along the fence lines where the cattle grazed, licking shoots of new spring grass that grew in the mowing on the edge of the pasture. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars Something a little different, 30 Nov 2008
By S. Caughie "scaughie" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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My mum left this when she came to visit. I was going to leave it too (her literary tastes tend toward the Maeve Binchy, mine distinctly the opposite) until I saw that it was about the Civil War. Since my next book has a section about the Civil War, and I'm big on research-through-fiction, I thought I'd give it a go.

And was pleasantly surprised. Definitely not Maeve Binchy! The plot is simple, the language clean and beautiful, and best of all, the noble beast does not die in the end. In fact nothing terrible happens to the eponymous horse - my favorite thing about the book, given the penchant among writers for making the titular animal suffer in this kind of book...

Anyway, I'd have given it five stars except that the whole thing with Rachel didn't quite work for me. A bit too obvious, perhaps. And I'd have liked it better without her very predictable ultimate fate. Still, well worth the time to read it.
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