Author of The Horse Whisperer, the 1995 book that was turned into a popular film, starring and directed by Robert Redford
as her mother, who seeks out Redford’s Booker, and has an affair with him, did well but was not a huge hit.
, first on Weekend World and then the London Programme, the broadcaster’s top current affairs show, before joining the South Bank Show as executive producer from 1982 to 1984.Photograph: Buena Vista/Sportsphoto/Allstar He followed this up with The Smoke Jumper , whose titular protagonist is in love with his best friend’s wife, and who exiles himself as a war photographer. Next came The Divide , about a wealthy New York couple who holiday in Montana, where the body of their eco-terrorist daughter is discovered frozen in the mountain ice.
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