![]() ![]() Reprinted in paperback a couple of times by Carousel. Reprinted in hardback by Kestrel in 1980. SUMMARY: A young boy attempts to train a horse for the Grand National. Published in the USA by Doubleday in 1962 and re-titled.ĮDITIONS PICTURED: USA re-titled edition. Sadly he died young, at the age of only 49, in 1969. He also wrote some other non-pony novels as well as non-fiction books about horses, racing and Dartmoor, 19 books in all. ![]() Many of the books have a Dartmoor setting. Most of the books are aimed at an older readership. His books usually have a depth and perception unseen in many children's novels. ![]() He became a full time writer in the 1960s.įor some reason he is a rather over-looked author, but he is in fact an extremely accomplished writer. He travelled extensively throughout the UK, Ireland and France, joined a travelling repertory company and worked as a journalist. Born in Totnes, Devon in 1919, he soon become passionately interested in Dartmoor, which was to feature in many of his books, both fictional and non-ficition. ![]()
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