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- ISBN 9781803512808
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'For a long time I had not been that person. For a long time horses had not occurred to me at all.'
For a long time, she and her husband have their dog and she almost certainly doesn't want to have a child. But then the dog dies and she learns she can't have a child even if she wanted to, and she begins to think about horses again. When she hears about a mare who needs looking after part-time, it sounds like an ideal arrangement. Something to care for two days a week, without getting in too deep. But as she brushes and feeds and rides the horse, affection grows into obsession and she must confront what it means to love a being who did not come from her body and who does not belong to her.
Emily Haworth-Booth's award-winning debut novel is a bold and beautiful exploration of contemporary (non)motherhood and the surprising ways in which desire can enthral us and set us free.
Emily Haworth-Booth teaches at the Royal Drawing School and is an illustrator, graphic novelist and children's author. She was a Foyles Young Poet, and won the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize. Her debut picture book The King Who Banned the Dark was shortlisted for the Waterstones' Children's Book Prize and Independent Bookshop Week Book Award, and longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Prize. She is also the author of two other books for children, The Last Tree and Protest! She lives in Devon with her husband, dog, and several horses.
