Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again. At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption - a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed. In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives - including Tom Booker's - will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold. Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too. For she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of he daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. Annie has risked everything - her career, her marriage, her comfortable life - in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge.Īnnie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. And a mother's quest beings - to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.
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