Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls

Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls











This is considered a true-life novel in that it tells the story of Lily Casey and her life as she grows up in the
1920s and 1930s in a pioneering home in the west. She at first lives in a sod home on the prairie and helps her father with care of the farm and horses, She is a natural.


The story continues through her travels, at first with her family and then on to Chicago, where she has a bad marriage.

This changes her attitude towards life and she becomes a teacher and  then pilot; a person with her own mind and way of doing things and living life .

Eventually, she gets married and has children but her adventures continued. 

What an adventurous and interesting life this incredible lady lived.!

An interesting  and often amazing story of a woman who knew what she wanted and  worked hard to get it.


It is based on the life of the  author's  grandmother.

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