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Fallen for France by Elizabeth Letts

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An exquisite Arabian mare. A small boy leaving home in colonial North Africa. A young woman in France fighting to survive World War I. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of Her Life braids a sweeping novel of love, war, empire, and the power of kindness in a world descending into darkness.

“From Morocco to the Western Front, this thrilling saga is both sweeping and intimate.”—Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

“Fallen for France has everything—wartime intrigue, exotic locations, and beautifully flawed characters. Prepare to be swept away.”—Susan Meissner, author of A Map to Paradise

Beddou is six years old when he is sent off to apprentice far from his High Atlas village in Morocco. His mother gives him six amber beads to help him find his way home. That same month, a magnificent filly is born in Fes, in the splendor of the Sultan’s palace. For a brief, golden time, the mare belongs to the boy. But Beddou’s heart is broken when a soldier steals his horse and disappears into France just as the Great War roars to a start. Finding her seems impossible, but he vows to try.

Estelle, a young woman in France, finds a distressed Arabian mare wandering alone in the meadow behind her house. She is determined to look after this radiant creature just as tenderly as she cares for her vulnerable younger brother. But soon her world is torn apart, and she loses both the horse and her brother. She will spend the rest of the war searching for both.

Thomas is an Englishman hardened by his experience as a wartime veterinarian in France. He finds the mare and promises to protect her—and the woman who once loved her—but he doubts his own ability to keep anyone safe. As the pathways of the unforgettable mare and the boy’s desperate search intertwine, the separate strands of these strangers’ journeys converge, propelling them to make momentous choices that will change the course of their lives.

Spanning Morocco and France in the shadow of World War I, Fallen for France follows unforgettable characters whose lives are bound by a magnificent horse and a string of amber beads.

An exquisite Arabian mare. A small boy leaving home in colonial North Africa. A young woman in France fighting to survive World War I. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of Her Life braids a sweeping novel of love, war, empire, and the power of kindness in a world descending into darkness.

“From Morocco to the Western Front, this thrilling saga is both sweeping and intimate.”—Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

“Fallen for France has everything—wartime intrigue, exotic locations, and beautifully flawed characters. Prepare to be swept away.”—Susan Meissner, author of A Map to Paradise

Beddou is six years old when he is sent off to apprentice far from his High Atlas village in Morocco. His mother gives him six amber beads to help him find his way home. That same month, a magnificent filly is born in Fes, in the splendor of the Sultan’s palace. For a brief, golden time, the mare belongs to the boy. But Beddou’s heart is broken when a soldier steals his horse and disappears into France just as the Great War roars to a start. Finding her seems impossible, but he vows to try.

Estelle, a young woman in France, finds a distressed Arabian mare wandering alone in the meadow behind her house. She is determined to look after this radiant creature just as tenderly as she cares for her vulnerable younger brother. But soon her world is torn apart, and she loses both the horse and her brother. She will spend the rest of the war searching for both.

Thomas is an Englishman hardened by his experience as a wartime veterinarian in France. He finds the mare and promises to protect her—and the woman who once loved her—but he doubts his own ability to keep anyone safe. As the pathways of the unforgettable mare and the boy’s desperate search intertwine, the separate strands of these strangers’ journeys converge, propelling them to make momentous choices that will change the course of their lives.

Spanning Morocco and France in the shadow of World War I, Fallen for France follows unforgettable characters whose lives are bound by a magnificent horse and a string of amber beads.

  • Publisher: Penguin Random House

    Title: Fallen for France

    Author: Elizabeth Letts

    On Sale Date: August 25, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9780593496916

    ISBN 10: 0593496914

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $32.00

    BISAC: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction

    Page Count: 336

    Dimensions: 6-1/8 in W | 9-1/4 in H

  • Elizabeth Letts is a #1 New York Times bestselling author best known for horse-centered narrative nonfiction, including The Perfect Horse, winner of the PEN Award for Research Nonfiction, and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. A former competitive equestrian, she brings a lifelong familiarity with horses to her research and her prose. Fallen for France carries that expertise into fiction, threading a Moroccan stable boy, a young Frenchwoman, and a wartime veterinarian together through the fate of a single, remarkable horse. She lives in Maryland.

  • Critics and fellow bestselling authors are calling it thrilling, sweeping, and masterful:

    • “From Morocco to the Western Front, this thrilling saga is both sweeping and intimate.” — Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

    • “Fallen for France has everything—wartime intrigue, exotic locations, and beautifully flawed characters.” — Susan Meissner, author of A Map to Paradise

    • “Masterful and emotionally captivating...a testament of the kindness and love that can only be found in hope.” — Kim Michele Richardson, author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

    • “This is a beautiful novel, part War Horse and part A Farewell to Arms. Characters are richly developed, scenes brought to life with cinematic detail.” — Historical Novels Review

This book is for you if

  • You've always been moved by stories where an animal becomes the thread that binds strangers' fates together.

  • You want a World War I novel that ranges beyond the trenches, from a Moroccan mountain village to the French front.

  • You're drawn to multi-perspective stories that follow separate characters until their paths finally converge.

  • You loved Elizabeth Letts's horse-centered nonfiction and want to see her turn that expertise into fiction.

  • You're looking for a wartime story built on both loss and the quiet persistence of hope.

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