One Trick Pony: 'A contender for book of the year' - Jennie Godfrey

'I was sucker-punched by this exceptional novel. Already a contender for book of the year.' Jennie GodfreyTWO FAMILIES. 150 YEARS. ONE EPIC RIVALRY. Welcome to Pony, Wyoming, a dust bowl town way out west.Thirty miles east lies the Sheehan ranch, their neighbours the Mooney’s just over the fence line.In 1936, sixteen-year-old August Sheehan falls for George Mooney.But when she finally lets him into her bed, she wakes up with a gun in her face, double-crossed for the oil beneath her land.Though it feels like an ending, it's only the start . . . Through twelve decades and six generations, the rivalry between these families will become as unforgiving as the land itself.From a rodeo star who steals his best friend's girl, to two young women, close as sisters, running their ranches side by side, to a hired hand on a dude ranch selling the cowboy experience, and beyond to an imagined future where two lonely searchers find love as the dust storms close in around them. One Trick Pony is a mode