Hurrah to these four, who spared the time in the run up to holiday madness to take the tardis back to childhood and remember pony mania. I wish you horses under your Christmas tree and subscriptions to Horse and Hound all round. You endured not only ponylessness but even broken bones, parental bafflement and life-limiting …
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Are you an adult recovering from a deprived, pony-mad but ponyless childhood? Did you always enter Win a Pony competitions and somehow never win even though you spent weeks swotting for the quiz answers? Does it still rankle? Did you gallop around the garden jumping over fences made from bamboo canes and flowerpots? Or eat …
This post relates to a chapter of the book If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of an Equine Obsession. If you have any questions to ask about the content, please fire away in the comments. The main online index for the book is here.
I’m delighted to share the cover which Atlantic Books have conjured up for my book, which will be published in hardback in the UK in March 2012. If Wishes Were Horses is a memoir of my own unabashed horse-craziness but also an eclectic and eccentric history of girls and horses from Lascaux to My Little …
