The Horse Whisperer
by
Nicholas Evans
His
name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal
broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the
Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the
girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She
comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes to him
for what no one else can give her: a reason to believe.
Nicholas Evans
born in Worcestershire, The United Kingdom
July 26, 1950
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Nicholas
Evans was born and grew up in Worcestershire, England. He studied law
at Oxford University, graduating with first class honors, then worked as
a journalist for three years on the Evening Chronicle in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He then moved into televsion, producing films about
US politics and the Middle-East for a weekly current affairs programme
called Weekend World. It was during this time that he traveled a lot and
got to know the United States.
In 1982 he started to produce
arts documentaries - about famous writers, painters and film-makers,
several of which won international awards (films about David Hockney,
Francis Bacon, Patricia Highsmith). In 1983 he made a film about the
great British director David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago,
etc). Lean became a friend and mentor and persuaded Evans to switch from
fact to fiction.
For the next ten years, Evans wrote and
produced a number of films for television and the cinema. In 1993 he met
a blacksmith in the far South-West of England who told him about horse
whisperers - people who have the gift of healing traumatized horses.
Evans started work on what was to be his first novel.
Published
in the fall of 1995, The Horse Whisperer has now sold about fifteen
million copies across the world. It has been the number one bestseller
in about 20 countries and has been translated into 36 languages. It was
also made into a movie, starring, produced and directed by Robert
Redford.
The Loop and The Smoke Jumper, Evans's second and third
novels, were again an international bestsellers, topping the bestseller
lists in many countries. The Smoke Jumper was published in a paperback
edition on July 30, 2003. Evans lives in London and Devon, England.
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