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Comeback! by Dick Francis
Comeback tells us what happened when the Protagonist - diplomat Peter Darwin, went back to his boyhood country of Gloucestershire after twenty long years. It tells of the bane of small towns and villages, how people and places change, yet remain the same in many ways.
The book provides an insight into the world of horse racing and the underbelly of horse owners, racers, vets and insurers. The death of prize horses baffles everyone and you don't need to be a detective to detect that crime trail. You must be curious to connect cause to effect or vice versa!
We read about how professional reputation maybe everything to one and how another may tear it apart unintentionally. And finally how friendship can be a true blessing! You might meet someone and become his friend instantly and know someone from years and yet not be his friend! It is a story of friendship and hope...an interesting, absorbing and well paced book.
DREAM COUNTRY
by Luanne Rice
DREAM COUNTRY is Wyoming....of the ranches, the canyon, the wide open skies! James Tucker and his ex-wife, Daisy, come face-to-face again, when their teenage daughter, elopes. They have already lost her twin brother who tragically disappeared at the age of three and that trauma broke up their charmed existence.
James and Daisy put aside their differences and wait together for their daughter. The story takes us back to the days of James' father, the old animosity between local clans, and their once idyllic life together. It begins with great sincerity, but meanders along the way, as small events and little misunderstandings assume monstrous equations! The author is truer to her research than she is to her characters and the plot, and this disconnect is very palpable at times.
Towards the end, James and Daisy are rewarded-a wish is fulfilled and a dream comes true...yet they could have been at anyplace on Earth!
Comeback tells us what happened when the Protagonist - diplomat Peter Darwin, went back to his boyhood country of Gloucestershire after twenty long years. It tells of the bane of small towns and villages, how people and places change, yet remain the same in many ways.
The book provides an insight into the world of horse racing and the underbelly of horse owners, racers, vets and insurers. The death of prize horses baffles everyone and you don't need to be a detective to detect that crime trail. You must be curious to connect cause to effect or vice versa!
We read about how professional reputation maybe everything to one and how another may tear it apart unintentionally. And finally how friendship can be a true blessing! You might meet someone and become his friend instantly and know someone from years and yet not be his friend! It is a story of friendship and hope...an interesting, absorbing and well paced book.
DREAM COUNTRY
by Luanne Rice
DREAM COUNTRY is Wyoming....of the ranches, the canyon, the wide open skies! James Tucker and his ex-wife, Daisy, come face-to-face again, when their teenage daughter, elopes. They have already lost her twin brother who tragically disappeared at the age of three and that trauma broke up their charmed existence.
James and Daisy put aside their differences and wait together for their daughter. The story takes us back to the days of James' father, the old animosity between local clans, and their once idyllic life together. It begins with great sincerity, but meanders along the way, as small events and little misunderstandings assume monstrous equations! The author is truer to her research than she is to her characters and the plot, and this disconnect is very palpable at times.
Towards the end, James and Daisy are rewarded-a wish is fulfilled and a dream comes true...yet they could have been at anyplace on Earth!
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