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Tags progressive rock rock classic rock folk rock prog psychedelic rock United Kingdom. Road To Darkness Special Edition. May 15, Diane Barnes rated it really liked it. You have to read the first book of this trilogy to know why 13 year old Leo is wandering the English countryside in He lives with gypsies for a while, then, on his own again, seeks work in a copper mine, on a sheep farm, and then travels with a kind-hearted tramp. Along the way he meets all kinds, theives, murderers, suspicious women and false friends, and people willing to give him clothes and food for a few hours work.
Also along the way, he grows and learns from them all, good and bad. Back at the estate he was forced to leave, his friend Lottie is also learning and growing and becoming a woman, although not in the way her father would prefer. I can't wait for Tim Pears to get the third book written, so I can find out what happens to these two, especially now that WWI has reared its ugly head.
Love this author and am off to look for his earlier books. View all 4 comments. Jun 17, Jeanette rated it it was amazing.
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Warning- do not read this book, which is 2 in a trilogy, unless you have read the first. The Horseman is book 1. That one was good, this one is excellent. It's a progression in time month to season. Here at the beginning, Leo is turning He's just about as old as the century. As it enters near the ending, you will not believe all that has happened within these nearly couple dozen months. England and the western districts he is always heading for Cornwall are superbly drawn.
The nature Warning- do not read this book, which is 2 in a trilogy, unless you have read the first. The nature writing surpasses anything I have read placed England and particularly for that period of farming, livestock, poultry keeping, bounties or not of the land. Class distinctions, not only in economic resource and attrition values, but in all senses layered.
Finely, crudely, for faith and moral connections- or not. But all clearly unpeels layer by layer in actions and witness. Not half as much in conversations or abstract word flings between the more hubris. But nevertheless in vast investigation of that time, that place, the minds and bodies of Leo and Lottie. Different places and never met during these wanderings. And where has the white colt been lead to wander too? Taken away by another in the night.
I find I will have to wait for book 3 and it may be some time. Excellent tale of reality "eyes" in a time when childhood was not defined in years. And learning was often far, far from any school room or library. And in which freedom of no owning and abandoned loyalties and disconnection lead to quite other lessons.
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Some of the dire and painful supreme. Others of bountiful sharing and stranger protection. But almost nothing of stable continuity. Thieves, scoundrels, fools with know better directives, mute kindness or sharing, animal partnering and animal tooth and claw- a full spectrum of types. They adhere and then they don't? But always an end goal. And the struggle for food and for shelter. I've read books of this scale of wandering before, but never for English districts. It's always been on other continents, and especially in the North American South or West. The voice of Lottie portions were point on for her thoughts and actions too, especially upon the changed relationship with her father's marriage and her interests in the biologic.
Somehow the duck trade help she is giving too, near the ending- it puts her at increasing disparity with her class and station. You know with the war- it will all change. Where will that interest in the medical and bodies lead? And always you know too, her absolute surety and the waiting for his return. Read these, but only in order. They are very gritty and specific. And also a sublime insight too into the roamers and gypsy Romany culture of that period and those places.
But regardless of the gristle of the subject matter, the prose is bursting like just broken buds. Made me wonder what badger fat smells like. No, I'm sure I don't want to know. View all 8 comments. Mar 19, Samidha Kalia rated it really liked it Shelves: A copy of the book was provided in exchange of an honest review. Would love to thank BloomsburyIndia for sending the copy.
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- Wilnius und Ich: Fast ein Bericht (German Edition);
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- La Ronde des mensonges (SANG D ENCRE) (French Edition).
I really liked this book a lot. It is set almost at the cusp of World War one, with a lot of foreshadowing. If you watched closely, each drop seemed not to fall from above but rise from beneath the surface. I am glad to say I was taken by surprise. The world before the war has always fascinated me. There was always a sense of dread, as Leo and Lottie are from a generation that is going to witness the most gruesome war, and maybe even both of them.
Bearing down upon them, flying low and fast along the ridge, straight as arrows. Even with Lottie you can see the first signs of the suffragette movement. Both are very historically accurate as characters, which will make the third installment very painful for me to read. Lastly I want to talk about the writing. It gave me a sense of reading a writer from the early 20th century.
You are with Leo as he runs away on his horse, from the Gypsies. You stand by these characters and you witness their feelings first hand. In the world of fiction, where everything is being dominated by fast-pace writing, this is one slow, beautiful and terrifying read. If not for the characters, read the novel for the words. Jun 21, Susu rated it really liked it Shelves: And now I must wait to see what becomes of Leo, Lottie, the white horse Hope the wait is a short one! It is a novel of stark contrasts as the story alternates between Leo and Charlotte in the years between and As he passes through the Bodmin and Dartmoor areas he lives with a family of gypsies, works on at what remains of an abandoned tin mine it was the time when the workforce moved north to the iron and coal mines of Cumbria , then lives wild in a wood with a hermit for a while.
Charlotte meanwhile, continues her education in the home of her father, Lord Prideaux. Personally I found this as enjoyable, if not a bit more, than The Horseman. As with the first book of the trilogy there are some passages of outstanding writing, Pears writes so well about nature. While Leo is at the Okehampton fair, with horses racing bareback and bare knuckle boxing, Charlotte is at the Epsom Derby. Your old woman there looks a sour as a crab apple tree.
All your women chatter like magpies. I am sure it will be one of the highlights of my reading year. The big question is, with the World War looming, can the final book of the trilogy live up to the first two, I very much look forward to it.
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Feb 22, Bewitchingly Paranoid rated it really liked it. The Wanderers by Tim Pears is rather an interesting book. The title suits the story perfectly and you yourself feel that you have become a part of the book. When you start with the book, all the scenes start scrolling like a movie in front of your eyes.
The entire scenic beauty has been described very minutely, one can literally picture the story in which Leo scrounges work, learn some skills, makes a few friends, and is robbed of his magical horse. From taming any wildlife to rural practices, ev The Wanderers by Tim Pears is rather an interesting book. From taming any wildlife to rural practices, everything is delivered in detail. From a timid boy to a person who has seen rough time, and that change has been showcased in a very miraculous manner.
There is a base of history surrounding the time period of but the good thing is that the history of will not overwhelm you. The novel gives you a close glimpse of war and the social conflicts of rich poor. To be honest, I found the book a little intense and a bit slow, maybe cause I am not really used to with such descriptions but even though saying that, I did admire the book.
What I really liked about the book cover and the title was the way it described the book in one go. Once you complete the novel, you understand the reason for the boy sitting on a horse in a lonely field. The writing is smooth and the descriptive way in which the author, Tim Pears has written shows how wide his imagination can go. I am surely looking forward to the last part. Jan 24, MetroBookChat rated it really liked it. And that was despite it being critically acclaimed.
Second in a trilogy, The Wanderers stands on its own in this British pastoral. Displaced youth, Leo is coming of age among ranchers, miners, the gypsy life and various animals. Long have I wished to be a sailor. Jan 31, Eleanor rated it it was amazing Shelves: This volume is set in Devon and Cornwall in , as Leo Sercombe is cast out of his home on the Prideaux estate in Devon for some crime which remains unspecified. Pears gives the reader two perspectives: His writing, both about nature and about the complexities of the human heart, is delicate and precise and always slightly oblique; he is the master of presenting a situation or a piece of dialogue without comment, and letting the reader conclude what she will.
I'm shocked that I haven't read his work before now. Oct 21, Giki rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a quietly beautiful, engaging, vivid book. The life and people of the southern English countryside leap off the page in full colour. But there is plenty space to breathe, to think. Early on in the book one of the characters remarks that some townsfolk are so used to noise that they cannot here the trees speak. In this book you can hear the trees speak. This has a different sort of magic than the first in the trilogy.
Torn from his place on the land when he was born, Leo's life no longer f This is a quietly beautiful, engaging, vivid book. Torn from his place on the land when he was born, Leo's life no longer follows the stable rhythm of the farming year. This is a hypnotic meandering journey across the west country as the boy grows up. Lottie's story is full of foreboding, her sense of loss amplified as her life on the Estate is set to change forever. I feel Tim Pears must have done a huge amount of research to create such a authentic feel to even the most minor characters that inhabit his story.
They are real and complex people, following a tradition that has now largely disappeared, to see the world from their viewpoint is a real treat.