I had a variety of issues with it:1) She assumes that any reader who picks this up and doesn't know anything about horses needs to be told in parentheses that a horse's hocks are their elbows (not strictly true, either).n And yet, she doesn't feel the need to explain what an "Arabian face" is in her Morgan? Extremely inconsistent. In that case, the writing was sub-par at best. She teaches English and writing at a college level. At first I was willing to overlook the questionable writing, until I read the blurb about the author on the back. This book felt disjointed and lacked a strong narrative core. This truly is a deeply moving story about a horse, a broken heart, and the beginnings of healing. Susan struggles with Lay Me Down’s illness, her own conflicted feelings, and her first stumbling efforts to rejoin the human race.
Susan Richards, whose heart broke at age five when her mother died a lingering death from cancer, and who has steadfastly avoided any emotional commitments that would lead to loss, finds herself committed to a beautiful, sweet-natured horse who has had a life as hard as her own, and who is going to die. In the position it’s in, it can’t even be biopsied safely, but it’s almost certainly cancerous. With Susan’s care, Lay Me Down gets back to a healthy weight, recovers from her pneumonia, and gets successfully integrated into her existing herd of one Morgan mare and two quarter horse geldings.Īnd then she discovers that Lay Me Down has an eye tumor.
She gets a Standardbred named Lay Me Down, a 16-year-old broodmare who is terribly thin and who has pneumonia.
Against her better judgment, Richards agrees to take one of the horses. Their barn was already full they need foster homes immediately. Then she gets a call from the local SPCA, which has taken in more than forty horses from an abuse case.
Having given up alcohol, casual sex, and in fact men altogether, she may be lonely, but at least she’s safe. Susan Richards has survived an abusive childhood and a bad marriage, and now, in her forties, is living on a small farm with her three horses, working as a social worker, and determinedly protecting her independence.
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