Swimming with Horses

This story sizzles with heat and excitement and the crusading passion of youth. A young woman arrives from apartheid era South Africa, in Canada, to work with horses. She starts training a younger teenage lad who has a lot of work to do to make the school eventing team. The South African sequence of......more

At first glance, set in the 60s, this is a seemingly peaceful murder mystery on horseback. At second and closer look however, it’s all that and more because it could as well be read in reverse and then beneath the façade of peaceful, there would be pure, thrilling danger. Sam is a 15-year-old teenag......more

A MUST READ. It’s a MUST READ because it is such a profound and beautifully written book. “Her departure merely confirmed what they had believed all along. That girl was trouble. And she was. I know she was. I know better than anyone.” This is Sam Mitchell’s description of Hilary Anson, a South Afri......more

This fast-paced, beautifully written book held my interest from start to finish. I'm not interested in horses, but Oakland Ross not only made me care about the horses in this book, he managed to convey their personalities and the challenges they represented to the characters so that a novice like me......more

Screaming with real life and full of characterization, this is a book that offers literary perspective. It’s the first time that I’ve read Oakland Ross’s work, but hopefully not the last time.......more