A haunting story of love, rebellion and betrayal.
– Tim Robbins, Academy Award-winning actor and director (Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption)
Broken Horses
by Kate Beales
Price range: £6.99 through £9.99
Paperback: 978-1-0683417-5-5
Patagonia, 1921. Racked with guilt after leaving her wounded fiancé in the aftermath of the Great War, Georgie Carruthers crosses the ocean to southern Patagonia to forget the past and to start a new life as the governess of a motherless boy with the Creeds, a wealthy estancia family frozen in colonial expectations and manners. Central to this straight-jacketed world is Raul, the horse breaker whose warmth, wisdom and integrity captures Georgie’s heart, just as Mr Creed starts to think Georgie might make a useful second wife. The initial love triangle subverts narrative expectations and breaks into a world of desperate politics. This novel has everything – wind-swept plains, horses, rebellion and passion.
Timeless, windswept, the writing as brisk and wild as the horses.
– Eleanor Anstruther, author of A Perfect Explanation
Shimmers with a sense of justice and redemption.
– Katharine Quarmby, author of The Low Road
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About Kate Beales
Kate is a writer, theatre-maker and facilitator, working with communities across the UK and around the world. She has been a Senior Artist and Freelance Associate in the National Theatre’s Learning Department for 29 years.
Kate teaches Storytelling to wounded veterans, has worked with refugees on the streets of Paris and Athens, collaborated with a photographer to build pop up darkrooms for storytelling projects, and made participatory shows with 2-5 year olds in a giant bed. She’s co-devised theatre-based training for doctors in Osaka, and taught storytelling for Medical Humanities at Bristol University. For twenty years she was a lecturer in Shakespeare and Storytelling with New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in London.
In between, Kate teaches storytelling to senior executives around the world and devises creative workshops for writers.