Horse

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks tells a sweeping story of spirit, obsession and injustice across American history.'This deft novel moves between the present day and the Civil War era in a polyphonic examination of the fraught racial aspects of horse racing in US history' New Yorker'Brilliantly varied and with a galloping pace' Mail on Sunday'Brooks understands and empathises with all of her characters... a masterpiece' Jane Smiley