- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781407074450
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Our Horses in Egypt
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781407074450
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Splicing tales of Griselda's mission with Philomena's wartime trials, Belben's narrative ambles along at a pace suited to the war-battered world in which it unfolds. From this sentimental premise, she carves an epic tale devoid of syrup that cuts to the heart of our relationship with other cultures and other creatures
Hepzibah Anderson, Bloomberg.com
The novel offers a heart-rending account of the horses' experience in the Great War... Our Horses in Egypt, a radical experiment in narrative, has a sympathetic splendour, leading the blinkered humanist imagination into the realm of creaturely experience
Stevie Davies, Independent
Profound and original
Independent
Magnificent... funny and sad, by turns elegant and terse, romantic and brisk - evocative and entirely beguiling, a wonderful novel
Matthew Dennison, Daily Telegraph
Here is a First World War story and a love story with a difference... Rosalind Belben is as unsentimental as she is skilful. Griselda's quest is perfectly paced, and the author's default tone is restraint mixed with irony. As a result she has conjured up a novel of unexpected potency
Edwin Reardon, The First Post
Brilliantly brutal
Big Issue
Belben does not shy away from difficult themes...In this powerful novel, Belben celebrates the gift of not forgetting with the confidence and style of a writer who deserves to be a great deal better known
Melissa Katsoulis, Tablet
A remarkable work of literature... If literary prizes were awarded (as they still, occasionally, are), on pure excellence of writing, Our Horses in Egypt would be sure to make Rosalind Belben a late-blooming household name
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
A most unusual, fascinating novel...gripping transcontinental adventure
Herald