An auction at
21st May 2013
In support of
Kingswood: Kaye And Ward, 1982
8vo, first edition, original pictorial boards, head and foot of spine very slightly bumped
The story of a farm boy and his horse Joey, who find themselves at the front in the First World War.
Runner-up for the 1982 Whitbread Book award. Adapted for stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse the play won numerous awards. Steven Spielberg produced and directed the film version with a screenplay by Richard Curtis and Lee Hall.
Annotated on four pages. Approximately 225 words.
Clare, my wife and first reader and editor, and chief mentor, believes this is my best book. I really hope she’s not right, because I’ve written at least 80 books since… For us this is always a book about peace and reconciliation. So imagine the joy it will give us when the play of War Horse is showing in Berlin and London in 2014, a hundred years after the beginning of the ‘senseless, huge’ war.
Clare, my wife and first reader and editor, and chief mentor, believes this is my best book. I really hope she’s not right, because I’ve written at least 80 books since… For us this is always a book about peace and reconciliation. So imagine the joy it will give us when the play of War Horse is showing in Berlin and London in 2014, a hundred years after the beginning of the ‘senseless, huge’ war.
