EVANS, Nicholas Benbow (1950-2022)

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Obit in Daily Telegraph 16 August 2022 -  Nicholas Evans, journalist and author whose novel The Horse Whisperer sold millions of copies and became an onscreen success – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

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Nicholas Evans, journalist and author whose novel The Horse Whisperer sold millions of copies and became an onscreen success – obituary

He got the idea for his best-known book after talking to a farrier who told him about people who had the gift of healing traumatised horses

Nicholas Evans, who has died following a heart attack aged 72, was a journalist-turned-author who vaulted to the top of the bestseller lists in 1995 with his acclaimed book The Horse Whisperer, which also became a successful film....

Nicholas Benbow Evans was born on July 26 1950 at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the son of a motor trader, and educated at Bromsgrove School, where he became head boy. After a gap year teaching English in Senegal for VSO, he went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and took a first-class degree in Law....

Evans’s second wife, Charlotte Gordon Cumming, is a successful singer-songwriter who has written for the Sugababes. Her brother, Sir Alistair Gordon Cumming, is chief of the Comyn or Cumming clan, directly descended from William the Conqueror. One of Sir Alastair’s ancestors, John Comyn, known as The Red Comyn, was killed by Robert the Bruce in 1306 as the Comyn and Bruce families battled for supremacy in Scotland....

Nick Evans is survived by Charlotte, and by a daughter and two sons of his first marriage, to Jennifer Lyon (whom he met in his first week at Oxford), and a son with a former television colleague, Jane Hewland.

Nicholas Evans, born July 26 1950, died August 9 2022