Phoenix Rising, by NS Newsome

This novel would require maintain to require maintain the most gut-wrenching commencement page of whatsoever equestrian mass – fiction or non-fiction. It is told inwards the words of the horse, Phoenix, together with patch this is non a novel method the insights into “the horse’s lot” volition live an eye-opener for many.

The often-repeated, ancient proverb “if exclusively they could talk” has left horsemen together with women over the ages wondering simply that: if they could talk, what would they say? Would they similar us? Would they live happy inwards their lives?

Perhaps for many equestrians it is simply every bit good they cannot beak every bit they would non similar what came out of their horse’s mouth.

Phoenix Rising, past times NS Newsome
Lavender and White Publishing
£3.99 – ebook
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 per centum of the sale toll goes to The Ray of Hope Rescue middle inwards France.
Available from the publisher

The star of this mass Phoenix Rising, is a immature thoroughbred amongst an first-class pedigree together with plenty of speed. She has a skillful upbringing but is high-spirited together with amongst a heed of her own. This tin give the sack ofttimes live a skillful matter but her deportment together with some bad luck leads Phoenix out of the racing organisation together with into the exterior world.

And inwards recent months the fate of horses whose luck has changed for the worse has come upwards into the spotlight, amongst the horrific intelligence that British together with American equines all also ofttimes destination upwards on dinner tables inwards Europe – fifty-fifty disguised inwards processed centre products on British supermarket shelves.

Most probable over-represented inwards these statistics is the noble thoroughbred – born to race together with win, but if they don’t together with thus their time to come of a abrupt becomes rather bleak.

Often what seems a promising selection for a Equus caballus to require maintain a novel career or to alive out their days turns out the contrary – these trusting together with helpless animals are at the mercy of the humans who are entrusted amongst their care. Helpless because they cannot run away every bit a desperate domestic dog or truthful cat might.

As Phoenix finds, in that place are skillful homes together with bad, together with a Equus caballus who was in i lawsuit considered a classic challenger tin give the sack destination upwards on the slipperly gradient of existence passed from possessor to owner, amongst the circumstances ofttimes to a greater extent than dire each time.

We won’t unwrap whatsoever to a greater extent than of the plot but nosotros volition tell that Phoenix Rising volition accept the reader on a soul-searching journey, i that far also many horses move every day.

Indeed, if exclusively they could talk.

 

* Phoenix Rising is from the same stable every bit Winners, past times Jacqui Broderick.

Nicky Newsome grew upwards inwards the pump of England, closed to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon, together with developed a passion for all things equestrian at a really immature age. However, she had to brand create amongst galloping closed to the garden on home-made hobby horses until she was judged responsible plenty to require maintain a real-life pony at the historic menstruum of 12. She has never been without at to the lowest degree i Equus caballus or pony inwards her life always since. 

A serious riding accident when she was xviii pose paid to her ambitions of existence a jockey, but her brief work inwards a jump-racing yard left her amongst a deep dearest of, together with honor for, thoroughbreds. With her riding career over, Nicky returned to full-time didactics to accept an Honours Degree inwards Communication Studies, next which she spent several years working for the British Horse Society. Deciding that what she actually wanted to create was write close horses, together with prepare her involvement inwards ‘natural horsemanship’, she together with thus flora work amongst a publisher of equestrian magazines, during which fourth dimension she was involved inwards a National drive past times the International League for the Protection of Horses (now World Horse Welfare) to foreclose the alive export of equines for meat. 

For the past times thirteen years, Nicky has lived on a pocket-size farm inwards French Republic amongst her husband, Steve, her ii Arabian horses, ii ponies together with a menagerie of other animals, together with has lately re-homed a young, ex-race Equus caballus called Charlie. Phoenix Rising is her commencement operate of fiction, but she is hoping it won’t live her last.

 

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