The Dark HorseBy the author of Black Narcissus and The River '[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal' ROSIE THOMAS, GUARDIAN 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER '[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD 'All horses can walk some badly, some well, but to a few is given a gift of movement feline in its grace, a slouching, flowing continuous movement