My Animals and Other Family [Hardcover] Balding, Clare
by Balding, Clare
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0241003253
- ISBN 13
- 9780241003251
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I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learned through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine.” Clare Balding grew up in an unusual household. Her father a champion horse trainer, they shared their lives with more than one hundred thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals, and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of dogs, on a sprawling estate in the Hampshire Downs. As a child, Clare happily rode the legendary racehorse Mill Reef and received her first pony, Valkyrie, as a gift from Her Majesty the Queen of England. But Clare ranked low in the family pecking orderas a girl, she was decidedly below her younger brother, and both of them were certainly below the horses. Left to her own devices, she had to learn life’s toughest lessons through the animals, and through her adventures in the stables and the surrounding idyllic English countryside. From her struggles at boarding school to her triumphs as an amateur jockey and event rider, Clare weaves her own coming-of-age story through portraits of the beloved horses and dogs, from the protective Candy to the unruly Frank, who were her earliest friends. The running family joke was that women ain’t people.” Clare has to prove them wrong, to make her voice heardbut first she had to make sure she had something to say. My Animals and Other Family is a witty, brave, and moving account of stumblingoften literallyinto one’s true self.
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- Re-Read Ltd (GB)
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- Title
- My Animals and Other Family [Hardcover] Balding, Clare
- Author
- Balding, Clare
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0241003253
- ISBN 13
- 9780241003251
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- Uk
- Date Published
- 2013-08-29
- X weight
- 25 oz
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