About the Author

As a child Imke Spilker was fascinated with horses, but the human-horse relationship always seemed to her to be too one-sided. It saddened her that happiness was not mutual - that the rider's good feelings usually came at the expense of the horse. 'Is there anything we can give horses in return for what they have given us?' This is the question that subsequently guided her life. Fifteen years ago, she founded the Communicative Horses Project, which allowed horses to have their say. The surprising findings form the basis of this book.