The Horse Dancer: Discover the heart-warming Jojo Moyes you haven't read yet

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The things that did happen I didn't find overly believable and one of the main characters was just annoying and frustrating. The Horse Dancer tells the story of Sarah, a fourteen year old girl with a passion for horse riding which stems from her grandfather, Henri Lachapelle, a former pupil at Le Cadre Noir, a prestigious academy for horsemanship in Saumur, France. Moyes ( Me Before You; After You) is a master of character development, allowing each of her protagonists to stumble, shine, and surprise in all their humanity. In a hidden corner of London, Henri Lachapelle is teaching his granddaughter and her horse to defy gravity, just as he had done in France, fifty years previously.

Henri teaches Boo and Sarah how to defy gravity as he did in France so many years ago and dreams that one day Sarah will be able to live the life he couldn’t—as an écuyer at Le Cadre Noir. When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo - hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood - she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. Bellissimo il rapporto tra Sarah e Boo, la parte che riguarda i cavalli è molto dettagliata e ben fatta, molto bella. She’s evoked emotions and memories and also made me question how far I would go to ensure my horse was safe.One of the things that worked about this story is how you didn’t need to have background information to appreciate the world, conflicts and issues. Their relationship was a little too much rollercoaster and I think she has refined her writing since.

Prior to this though, Sarah has been passed from foster family to foster family who have been concerned about her inability to keep to their schedule for her and her absences from school, these obviously having been caused by having to cross London to ensure that Boo is well-cared for.Questa è la storia di Sarah un 14enne introversa, ma abile cavallerizza che si vede costretta a prendersi cura del suo amato Boo da sola, perché suo nonno è stato colpito da un ictus.

Moyes uses quotes from the book to head up each chapter and I have to say that my curiosity was piqued about how something so old, probably 500BC, was still venerated today. The Horse Dancer connects the lives of Sarah and Natasha in an enchanting and deeply romantic tale about the grace and beauty of second chances. Faced with losing her horse and her grandfather, the two things about which she cares the most deeply and the dual centres of her world, Sarah tries to manage on her own until she is forced to act, and aims to fulfil the dream that her grandfather always had for her – to join Le Cadre Noir.

I also really loved the parts about the Cadre Noir, of which I was vaguely familiar with before but now I have really read up about them.

When Sarah is trying to convince Thom to take her and Boo to France, she says “It was as if he could see everything, her dishonesty, her vulnerability, not in the way Maltese Sal had, as if he was stripping away every bit of her that was worth something, but with a kind of sympathy. When Captain is unavailable to Sarah, due to health problems, she is unexpectedly thrust into the lives of Natasha, a solicitor advocate and her soon-to-be ex-husband and commercial photographer Mac.This book about a young girl and her horse and her foster "family" made me feel and held my interest every in chapter. Tash also had a devasting situation at work, in which a child for whom she had advocated may have turned out to be a criminal.