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Post by tintin on Nov 14, 2011 16:39:30 GMT 1
I had to do a fair bit of travelling by train this weekend so I was able to polish off a decent amount of reading.
I read this one first and I have to say it was brilliant. It is everything you want from horsey literature.
Sympathetic main characters, interesting believable plot, well described incidents and just the right mixture of grit and glamour (enough adversity to be exciting, not so much as to be miserable).
A bay horse, Benedictine, acquires a bad reputation after causing a serious accident in the hunting field by rearing. The heroine schools other peoples horses for a living and takes in Benedictine for a bet to prove that he is not bad, just misunderstood and to save him from the knackers. There are several scrapes and a budding romance before she wins the bet. A splendid story of courage, horsemanship and growing up.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and it took me back to reading them years ago. It displayed to a very high degree every quality that made me enjoy the Pullein-Thompson books as a boy and the type of adventures I used to day dream about.
I donโt think I read it when I was younger as I am sure I would have liked it so much that I would have got my own copy.
I will definitely keep this book. Fun and charming, only slightly less good than my absolute favourite โA Day to Go Huntingโ
Only thing wrong with this one for me is that it is n't the start of a series.
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Post by Claire on Nov 15, 2011 11:33:41 GMT 1
Thanks for the review tintin. I haven't read this book anywhere near as much as most of the authors books. I can't remember reading it as a child at all. I think I'll give it another read shortly to refresh myself.
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Post by antilles on May 30, 2020 17:12:55 GMT 1
I thoroughly enjoy this book too. It's aimed at a slightly older audience than the standard pony book - school leavers, rather than school children, though of course it can still be read and enjoyed by the younger readers. The romance is all very light and innocent, but it is nice to see it in the context of a pony book. The Impossible Horse really does combine the traditional pony story with the coming of age story well.
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