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The Wild Other: A Memoir
by Clover Stroud
"No one knows why the White Horse is there above the hill in Uffington. It's a mystery that belongs to ancient man, and we can speculate. It we are only ever guessing."
Horse-mad Clover Stroud enjoyed a childhood blessed with ponies and the great outdoors in Wiltshire, with her exuberant and eccentric mother, Charlotte (known as Char), and father Rick Stroud.
In 1991, when Clover was sixteen, this came to an abrupt end when Char was thrown from her horse while out riding and suffered a catastrophic blow to the head. Defying the medical prognosis, Char regained consciousness, but could never be the mother Clover needed.
After her mother's accident, Clover sought comfort in friends, lovers and drugs and she embarked on a journey to regain the sense of home that had been so cruelly disrupted. Travelling through gypsy camps in Ireland, to rodeos in Texas and then to Russia’s Caucasus, Clover eventually found her way home to the Wiltshire countryside.
The Wild Other is an emotional account of love, loss and family, written with honesty. During traumatic times, horses and the landscape of her home county were Clover's anchor. This memoir is a reminder to live life to the fullest. Powerful but difficult reading.
Horse-mad Clover Stroud enjoyed a childhood blessed with ponies and the great outdoors in Wiltshire, with her exuberant and eccentric mother, Charlotte (known as Char), and father Rick Stroud.
In 1991, when Clover was sixteen, this came to an abrupt end when Char was thrown from her horse while out riding and suffered a catastrophic blow to the head. Defying the medical prognosis, Char regained consciousness, but could never be the mother Clover needed.
After her mother's accident, Clover sought comfort in friends, lovers and drugs and she embarked on a journey to regain the sense of home that had been so cruelly disrupted. Travelling through gypsy camps in Ireland, to rodeos in Texas and then to Russia’s Caucasus, Clover eventually found her way home to the Wiltshire countryside.
The Wild Other is an emotional account of love, loss and family, written with honesty. During traumatic times, horses and the landscape of her home county were Clover's anchor. This memoir is a reminder to live life to the fullest. Powerful but difficult reading.