Николас Эвенс (Unknown)
The Horse Whisperer
NICHOLAS EVANS
Level 3
Retold by Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
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Introduction
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First published in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers Ltd This adaptation first published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited Chapter 1 The Accident
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in the Longman Fiction Series 1997
This edition first published 1999
Chapter 2
Grace and Pilgrim
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Chapter 3
Tom Booker
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Original copyright © Nicholas Evans 1995
Chapter 4
The Journey West
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This edition copyright © Penguin Books Ltd 1999
Illustrations by David Frankland
Chapter 5
New Hope
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Cover design by Bender Richardson W h i t e Chapter 6
Understandings
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T h e right of Nicholas Evans to be identified as author of The Horse Whisperer has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Chapter 7
Mother and Daughter
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Chapter 8 Annie and Tom
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Chapter 9
Robert's Visit
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Chapter 10 Living for the Moment
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Chapter 13 A Year Later
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Introduction
Nicholas Evans was born in Bromsgrove, England, in 1950. He studied law at Oxford University, and then he began writing for a newspaper in Newcastle. Later he changed jobs and went to work in television. He became a reporter in the United States and the Middle East and one of his jobs was to write about the war in Beirut. He also produced television programmes about the lives of important people. In 1985 Evans turned from fact to fiction. Since then he has written and produced films for television. He lives in South London with his wife and their two children.