But I think it's fair to say that you can always expect elegant, spare writing that still somehow seems rich. "Another reviewer said that she never knows quite what to expect from Meg Rosoff, and I think that's really pretty much what it all boils down to. Rosoff's magical voice and her novel's ethereal setting will thrill her passionate longtime fans and garner her new ones. And her journey leads her to find love where she least expects it. But as she rides farther away from home, Pell's feelings for her parents, her siblings, and her fiancé surprise her with their strength and alter the course of her travels. She understands horses better than people and sets off for Salisbury Fair, where horse trading takes place, in the hope of finding work and buying herself some time. Pell yearns to escape the inevitable repetition of such a life. Pell is from a poor preacher's family and she's watched her mother suffer for years under the burden of caring for an ever-increasing number of children.
A young woman runs away from home and finds love in the most unexpected place In Meg Rosoff's fourth novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart.
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