Set in the elite world of competitive showjumping, the book begins with a mysterious death at a ranch in southern California, and rewinds to explain what happened, how ... and to whom.
“It’s also an ensemble so I wanted to make it feel like a TV show, with a large cast and intersecting storylines. There are elements of competition, family dynamics and even culty vibes,” she says.
“The cost of horse ownership and competition is prohibitive, and it’s also very difficult to make a living working in the industry. But people who truly love horses can’t live their lives without them, so they make enormous sacrifices just to be around them. Similar to what we are seeing in society now, the horse industry doesn’t have much of a middle class, and I think we should all ask ourselves what that means on a human level,” she says.
It happened with horses sometimes. They needed to be pushed. Heather remembered that at her old barn, whenever the lesson horses acted up with one of the students, trainers would jump on them and force them to behave.sometimes you had to make someone do a thing. Maple would realize it wasn’t all that scary. Heather knew her daughter. If Maple wasn’t pushed, she would never ride the horse, and all of Heather’s efforts would have been for nothing.
“I had him vetted, six different vets. It wasn’t physical. It was mental. He didn’t want to do it anymore. I fought that horse every damn day. I didn’t want to give up. This is a good horse, I said. This is the best horse I ever had.”Heather was mystified. “What happened to the horse?” “Ahh. He’s in a field somewhere, being an asshole.”
Maple mounted the horse and walked into the arena. Kieran closed the gate behind her. There were two other horses already in the ring. Heather wondered if they were trapped now.
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