Our Horses in Egypt
Author: Belben, Rosalind
ISBN: 9780099458968
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 Jun 2008
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
A historical novel about horses in the First World War (in Egypt and Palestine) this is an astonishing literary tour-de-force.
Philomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in the summer of 1914, and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England: thousands of British Army horses are sold off locally. Faint news of her reaches Griselda Romney, her old owner. The impulsive Griselda, taking with her little Amabel and, of course, Nanny, sails for Egypt - to find Philomena and bring her home.
ISBN: 9780099458968
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 Jun 2008
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
A historical novel about horses in the First World War (in Egypt and Palestine) this is an astonishing literary tour-de-force.
Philomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in the summer of 1914, and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England: thousands of British Army horses are sold off locally. Faint news of her reaches Griselda Romney, her old owner. The impulsive Griselda, taking with her little Amabel and, of course, Nanny, sails for Egypt - to find Philomena and bring her home.
