A review by mdwinter
The Wild Other: A memoir of love, adventure and how to be brave by Clover Stroud

3.0

A difficult book to rate because while I could not relate to the major narrative device of horses and horse-riding, the book definitely made me think and feel a lot. Stroud's response to tragedy is to throw herself into dangerous situations, mostly related to horses and men. Some of the passages about horses are too descriptive for someone who has had no contact with them, but Stroud makes up for it in her descriptions of her interactions with people. I did find her writing about her husband at the end very cringeworthy but appreciate that when it comes to writing about emotional attachments, to each their own.

A gift from Mum and Dad for my 25th.