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Breaking Free

Audiobook
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1 of 1 copy available

When an accident brought Maggie Roberts unimaginable tragedy, she found herself in prison grieving for the loss of her family and her old life and facing the daunting challenges of threatening fellow inmates. During the course of her ten-year sentence, she coped by keeping to herself and avoiding interacting with others. But in her last few months inside, when given the chance to work with retired Thoroughbred horses, she found a renewed purpose in life. Now she's faced with the transition back into society, starting over yet again and alone in the world.

Gil Winters is a single father seeking a new form of therapy for his wheelchair-bound son, Edward. Confined to his own prison of doubt and distrust, he still struggles daily with the memory of being abandoned by first his mother and then his drug-addicted ex-wife. But as he gets to know Maggie during his son's therapy sessions with her horses, the issues of trust and old wounds that haunt both Maggie and Gil begin to fade.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      This complex horse-centered romance gets a warm, fuzzy audio treatment. Maggie Roberts is serving time in prison for a reckless driving accident that killed her son. She enrolls in an experimental program that allows her to work with retired thoroughbred racehorses. Pam Ward manages to beautifully express Maggie's life, suggesting her powerful emotions of hope, fear, distrust, and love. When Maggie meets Gil Winters and his wheelchair-bound son, Edward, she begins to rebuild her life. Ward is equally adept at reading male, female, and child roles. Her poignant pacing allows listeners to fully empathize with Maggie and Gil's emotions. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 18, 2007
      This horse-centered romance by inspirational novelist Snelling (A Promise for Ellie
      ) is tedious and not the author’s best work. As it opens, Maggie Roberts is serving time in prison for an unnamed crime; although the details aren’t spelled out until the end of the novel, most readers will put the pieces together long before. Maggie is enrolled in a new, experimental program that offers prisoners the chance to work with retired racehorses. Before she knows it, Maggie has helped rehabilitate a horse (not so subtly named Breaking Free), and she might be fast-tracked for parole, if only she can secure a job on the outside. Enter Gil Winters. Abandoned by his ex-wife, he’s heroically raising a precocious son, Eddie, who, despite suffering from spina bifida, has learned to ride. Gil would buy Eddie his own horse, but he’d need to hire a caretaker for the animal as well. Throw in that Maggie’s divorced and Gil is lonely, and the plot isn’t hard to predict. Still, the characters have a bit of depth, and the tale of faith, forgiveness and starting over may find a readership with Snelling’s many diehard fans.

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