Wild Horses of the Summer Sun was published by Pegasus Books in the United States and by Murdoch Books in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. It drew reviews on both sides of the world.
You don’t have to love horses, riding, or Iceland in order to appreciate this fine memoir. Joan Baum · on Books, WSHU Public Radio
The marvel of this moving, funny, episodic narrative is that Bilski turns living on a horse farm in Iceland with other women for a week every June into a universal story.
Bilski is undoubtedly enamored of the horses, a breed protected by law in Iceland for more than a thousand years, closely watching their actions and recounting their travels together with an almost mystical admiration. But she also closely observes her travel companions, these women with travails both every day and extraordinary, whose adventures form the core of this rapturous travelogue.
Bilski weaves a narrative of horses and friendship in windswept Iceland in this transportive memoir. Those with adventurous spirits and healthy amounts of wanderlust will devour this charming memoir.
This charming saga of Icelandic cross-country riding has a little of everything: wild tales of mad gallops, centuries of the island’s history and personal stories of redemption and revitalization. It made me want to take my turn there!
When you’ve got friendship, a must-see global destination, and wild horses, what more is there to ask for?
Delving into notions of freedom, independence, expression, nature and adventure, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun is a magical, thought-provoking memoir.
Tory Bilski’s witty memoir of her annual ‘horse sabbaticals’ to Iceland will open up an entirely new side of this scenic travel destination for you.
The writing is vivid and has a real sense of immediacy, while at the same time, reflecting on Icelandic history and mythology (touching on Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites), as well as personal history.
A lively read that will not disappoint.