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  • Published: 27 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593438893
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99
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Girls and Their Horses





Set in the glamorous, competitive world of show jumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show…from the author of Good Rich People

“The thriller of the summer.”
—Today.com

Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show…from the author of Good Rich People

When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it’s their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had—starting with horses. 

She signs them up for riding lessons at Rancho Santa Fe Equestrian, where horses are a lifestyle. Heather becomes a “Barn Mom,” part of a group of wealthy women who hang at the stables, drink wine, and prepare their daughters for competition. 

It’s not long before the Parker family is fully enmeshed in the horse world—from mean girl cliques to barn romances and dark secrets. With the end of summer horse show fast approaching, the pressure is on, and these mothers will stop at nothing to give their daughters everything they deserve. 

Before the summer is over, lies will turn lethal, accidents will happen, and someone will end up dead.

  • Published: 27 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593438893
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Eliza Jane Brazier

Eliza Jane Brazier is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. Eliza entered the horse world at the age of five and has worked as a rider, horse trainer, and riding instructor. She lives with her horse and dogs in California, where she is developing her books for television.

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Praise for Girls and Their Horses

Praise for Girls and Their Horses

“Calling all former horse girls: This is the thriller you’ve been waiting for.”—Good Housekeeping

“In this whodunnit set in the elite show-jumping scene, new money clashes with old, while mean girls and competitive moms abound. Brazier gets everything right about how the horse world can go wrong.”—People

“The complex motives, class divisions, and nice-nasty backbiting among the ‘horse girls’ and ‘barn moms’ brings to mind the competitive female environments in Megan Abbott’s novels, but Brazier’s experience as a horsewoman and deep knowledge of that world could make her the next Dick Francis.”—Los Angeles Times

“Tensions have always run high in the elite (and, usually, rich) equestrian world. Girls and Their Horses dials up the intrigue by several degrees, embedding a new-money family into an insular and highly competitive horseback-riding community—where deceit, romance, and even murder aren’t out of the question in pursuit of a blue ribbon.”—Harper's Bazaar

“Brazier imbues her commentary on the elite snobbery of the equestrian community with universal observations of what it’s like to be a young girl trying to fit into an exclusive club and how little changes once these young girls grow up.”—Glamour

Big Little Lies goes equestrian in this lacerating, steamy thriller.”—Oprah Daily

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