About Places Reversed
It’s the Deauville yearling sales, and we arrive as former amateur jockey, now specialist banker, Freddie Lyons, is just about to be wiped out financially – apparently ripped off by his bloodstock agent. His Russian clients, whose funds he loses along with his own, refuse to wear the losses, and seem to have Novichoked his business partner; and Penny, the ex-wife he still loves, is after him for a divorce settlement he can’t afford. Pursued by other creditors too, he fights to save himself from total ruination, in constant dread of the consequences of failure. But the more he tries to dig himself out of his hole, the more he gets buried. Defeat follows defeat, until finally, the story is resolved by a racing coup, cooked up with his mentor, the racehorse trainer, Birkett Coward. It delivers a twist that is as unexpected as it is satisfying, coming as it does, after another, this time seemingly fatal, set-back.
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Author Bio:
Robert Braithwaite has been closely involved with horse racing since he was a teenager, when he began riding work for local trainers before the school day started. Reading law, before embarking on a business career, he spent most of his undergraduate years on the gallops at Newmarket. He has since worked as assistant to leading trainers in France and England. His time is split between Suffolk and Normandy where he continues to consult to clients as a bloodstock advisor and syndicate manager, alongside his work as an author.