As she physically recovers, she falls into a deep depression, unable to stop ruminating on her loss of mobility. She undergoes this procedure, knowing that it will cripple her for life. Due to the severe wounds Grace sustained on her right leg, the doctors recommend she have her right leg partially amputated. The truck driver calls for help and an ambulance takes Grace to the hospital. Pilgrim and Grace survive but are severely wounded. Unable to stop, the truck skids on a slick patch into the riders and their horses. They continue to slide down the hill along with their riders, into the path of an oncoming semitruck. While ascending a particularly treacherous hill, Judith’s horse, Gulliver, slips, sliding into Grace’s horse, Pilgrim. Having traveled to the area for its good horseback riding terrain, teenager Grace MacLean and her friend Judith are riding up and down icy slopes. The Horse Whisperer begins in northern New York on a morning in the middle of winter.
The book has also been adapted into a 1998 drama film of the same name. The story explores the intersections between human and animal communication and the lessons they can impart about compassion and emotional well-being. Ultimately, Grace finds inner healing by returning to her life working with horses. Grace’s parents have different ideas of how to best help their daughter recover, creating tension in the family that they work through over the ensuing years. The Horse Whisperer (1995), a contemporary novel by Nicholas Evans, concerns a young woman Grace and her mother, Annie, who both grapple with the aftermath of a tragic car accident that kills Grace’s friend and one of their horses.
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