Patagonia 1921.

In the aftermath of the Great War, Georgie Carruthers crosses the ocean for a new life as governess to a motherless child. On an isolated estancia in the middle of the vast and windswept Patagonian plain, Georgie finds a household consumed by sorrows and secrets. Soon, she becomes the confidante of her employer, the widower, Ian Creed.

As Georgie learns to love the desolate beauty of her new home, she is bewitched by the quiet charm of Raúl, the horse breaker. But insurrection is stirring among the estancia’s workers. When the landowners plan brutal reprisals, Georgie must decide where her loyalties lie.

“Timeless, windswept, the writing as brisk and wild as the horses.” – Eleanor Anstruther, author of A Perfect Explanation.

“Luminously beautiful, Broken Horses shimmers with a sense of justice and redemption.”  – Katharine Quarmby, author of The Low Road.

 A perfect, beautiful storm of a novel which brings together the wild backcloth of Patagonia in the 1920s, unrest and revolution among the workers, straight-jacketed colonialism, a poignant love story and horses broken and unbroken galloping across the wind-torn plains. The relationship between the horse breaker and the governess steals our hearts. Both epic and intimate, Kate Beales pulls off a tense, filmic narrative that will keep you hooked until the last page.

“A haunting story of love, rebellion and betrayal.” – Tim Robbins, Academy Award-winning actor and director (Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption)

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