The Horse Whisperer

A Novel

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Frank Muller

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...

The Horse Whisperer

He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. 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. Annie has risked everything -- her career, her marriage, her comfortable life -- in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. The accident has turned Pilgrim savage. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. 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. 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. 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. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.©1995 Nicholas Evans; (P)1995 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.

Critic reviews

“A compelling portrait of three people who love each other but can't break through the self-created walls that keep them apart.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Compelling . . . a real page-turner.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Fascinating . . . moving . . . a big, engrossing book [with] an unexpected endeing that surprises mightily.”—Los Angeles Times

“Brilliance pervades this five-hankerchief weepie.”—The Times (London)

“Outstanding . . . a book of rare power and beauty.”—Booklist

Audio voice is bad weird, sounds like he’s in a tunel

Don’t like the voice and audio, can’t continue to listen. I’m sure the stories is good by the otherreview

if the end of the movie...

narration is excellent - and if the end of the movie ever bothered you - make sure to do the book.

Touching entertaining novel

About modern and old fashion love in contrast with the morals and the pit falls of human desire and aloneness

Outstanding in Every Category

This book is practically perfect, and gets a “10” score from me. The appeal is not just to horse lovers. It’s a wrenching love story, so well written, I will never forget it.

What a combination...

...good book and a GREAT reader. Frank could read an owner's manual and draw you in. This is just
'so' much better than the movie. Presented like this it ranks up there with Beach Music and Pillars of the Earth.