We soon learn that Noah has a love of horses and, specifically, of jumping them over high jumps - what we now tend to call “puissance” - on the equestrian showjumping circuit.
It’s 1926 and the setting is rural New South Wales. When the book opens we meet 14-year-old Noah, a tomboy, and her father, Cecil, as the pair are coming to the end of a two-week job - driving a mob of pigs to market via horseback. But above all, it’s about aspiring to better things - and chasing dreams. It’s about the hardship of living on the land in the years between the wars, of milking cows and breeding horses, despite floods, drought and raging bush fires.
It’s about complicated families and the ways in which history often repeats itself within those families. It’s a story about love, sex, joy, sadness, jealousy and ambition. Fiction – Kindle edition Allen & Unwin 368 pages 2011.Ī book about horses would not normally be my cup of tea, but Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread - her first novel in 16 years - is more than just a story about equines.
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