"Animals are nothing but the forms of

our virtues and vices, wandering before

our eyes, the visible phantoms of our

souls ?

--VICTOR HUGO

A powerful novel about the spiritual

bond between man and animal, Jack will

touch the hearts of all who have known

love and loss.

Jack McKenna grows up in teh fields

of Devon in the timeless days before

World War I. His constant companion is

Bethlehem, a roan mare whom he

nurtures from a foal and plans to buy.

His dream of the two of them working

together contains a promise: that his

beloved Beth will meet the end of her

days in a green pasture.

But when the Great War begins, Beth

is requisitioned for the artillery. Bound

by loyalty, Jack, now grown, leaves his

young wife and takes his place on the Western Front,journeying from battery to battery in search of just one horse among thousands.