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Author Elizabeth Benney was a brat of a child. She's completely candid about it - self-centred, perverse, willful, obstinate ... living for her one passionate obsession - horses. Ah, but there are reasons for all of this in her autobiography. They gradually reveal themselves in this generous and rollicking New Zealand-American story that's hilarious as well as sometimes poignant and thoughtful. It's a life-story that at last faces up to what we must all confront, that's if we're lucky enough to live long enough. What will it be, in our own advancing years that we will be forced to give up, forever? Liz Benney portrays her day-to-day life running their horse farm in the USA and the many visits she makes to her own country, New Zealand. Then there are her returns in memory to her girlhood, her exotic forays into the Antarctic and into deepest China, and her extraordinary capacity for attracting memorable characters. Throughout it all is the foundation of her marriage to 'rock solid' Kiwi mathematician Dave, her family and memorable friends and the undying 'can do' spirit of her pioneering New Zealand forbears. Michael Korda, publisher, editor and bestselling author (his biography of T. E. Lawrence) has said: 'I liked this book very much. It is funny, sometimes sad, and full of great stories, exactly what a memoir should be.' With an unusual New Zealand childhood, Liz Benney became hunter, jumper and long-time judge with a horse-boarding business on a New England farm. She has won many equestrian awards 'in spite of having been born a hopeless athlete'. She is author of the Cape Catley books Seventy-Something Acres (2006) and Reaching Summit Rock (2001). |
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Paperback, 237 pages ISBN: 1-877340-08-1 Price: $28.99 |
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