Now a horse that looks almost exactly like Harry was rescued from certain death by the local vet (and Annemarie’s one-time boyfriend), Dan Garibaldi.

She never rode again to her parents’ disappointment. Her horse, Harry, broke a leg coming down from a jump and Annemarie was badly injured and Harry had to be shot. Then her past was resurrected in the form of a horse that brought back all her emotions from 20 years before when she was an Olympic class horse jumper. It did, however, turn out to be much more difficult than she expected. Managing a farm was not rocket science she told her mother. Her plan was to manage the horse training stable while her mother devoted her days to looking after her father. When her daughter got expelled from school she took her back to her parents’ horse farm in New Hampshire. Then, in a few short days her life imploded she was fired from her job, her husband told her he was leaving her for a woman 15 years her junior and she learned her father had ALS. It does not mean that I was reluctant to read it and when I did I enjoyed it.Īnnemarie Aldrich was living a perfect life in Minneapolis (or at least she thought she was) with a patent lawyer husband, a fifteen year old daughter and a demanding job as a software editor. The fact that it took me 8 years to get around to reading it just indicates how large my TBR pile is and how easily distracted I am from reading books in hand by new books.

I loved Gruen’s book Water for Elephants so when I saw this book, which was her first, on sale at my favourite book store I snapped it up.

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