The novel starts in upstate New York where a teenage girl, Grace Maclean, and her friend, Judith, go riding on their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver, on a snowy morning. The book was made into a film, also titled The Horse Whisperer, directed by and starring Robert Redford. In 2003 the novel appeared at number 195 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 'best-loved novels'. This also makes it one of the best-selling books of all time. The book was his debut novel, and gained significant success, becoming the 10th-best selling novel in the United States in 1995, selling over 15 million copies. The Horse Whisperer is a 1995 novel by English author Nicholas Evans. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.From the Paperback edition.Print (hardback and paperback) and audio CD

At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption-a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed.

Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too.In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives-including Tom Booker's-will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold. But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. Annie has risked everything - her career, her marriage, her comfortable life-in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge.Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. It is an odyssey that will bring her to.The Horse WhispererHe is the stuff of legend. And a mother's quest begins - to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans