
His own 25-year marriage had recently ended, he said. The story was inspired, he told The Associated Press, by his own interrogations into what causes rifts in a marriage - a marriage come asunder is the book’s back story. “The Divide” (2005), explores what led to the death of a young woman whose body is found in a frozen mountain creek.

It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.He followed “The Horse Whisperer” with three more novels, all bestsellers. 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. But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her 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. He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch can heal broken spirits. It is an odyssey that will bring her to.The Horse Whisperer And a mother's quest begins - 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 40-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.
