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'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse

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How Did You Find Lexington?

How did you come across this? Totally by chance. I was having lunch at a museum called plymouth plantation, which is a place i had gone to research my novel, caleb's crossing. While they were talking about that, i caught snatches of conversation from across the table. And it was an official from the smithsonian institution in washington who had just delivered skeleton of lexington from washington to the museum of the horse in kentucky. Because lexington really was the reason that kentucky became the centre of thoroughbred breeding. When he got to what happened during the civil war,  my salad sat uneaten, and my lunch companion, who

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