Kimberly Cates
Fly Away Home
Pocket Books, New York, 2000, 436 pp.
Fly Away Home on Ponydom
Eve Danaher is a successful artist, but her life still feels empty, particularly
as she is estranged from her 18 year old
duaghter. She books a trip to Ireland, where
she meets Michael Halloren, a horse trainer who introduces her to the
troubled children
he cares for at Glennamura Farm. Michael Halloren teaches her how powerful life
can be....
Kimberly Cates is an American author of romantic novels. She was a fervent, if not manic, early reader, and would sneak out after lights out and read by the hall light until her mother came home in the early morning. School was in some ways a challenge: when Kimberly was in third grade, her parents were called into school, to be told that she was refusing to learn her times tables as you did not need them if you were going to be a writer. She was always writing, starting many stories (though not actually finishing any!) Her parents eventually persuaded her she needed another string to her bow besides the desire to write, and she qualified as an elementary school teacher.
Once she was married and had a small daughter, Kate, her husband, Dave, gave her an electric typewriter for her birthday and told her “You have five years before Kate starts school. If you publish a book by then, you can stay home and be a writer like you've always dreamed." She wrote her first book while her daughter was asleep, and is now more than 20 books into her writing career.
Finding the book: easy to find in the USA and UK.
Links and sources:
Kimberly Cates at Harlequin
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