The One Dollar Horse is a brilliantly modern spin on the horse story and I really really loved it.
I do try not to use the word brilliant when reviewing a book by Lauren St John but somehow I always seem to fail. It’s not moralising didacticism, it’s an almost karmic retribution and it’s brilliant to read. There’s also a very nice edge in how she writes certain characters into getting their just desserts. In The One Dollar Horse, Lauren St John has done all this and she’s also thrown a hot trainee farrier into the mix. They’re tales of how when you do the right thing, when you’re kind to animals, and when you believe in yourself, you can achieve great things. The joy of horse stories is that, when done well, they’re world-class.
Rescuing this horse proves the first step in fulfilling her dream of competing at Badminton – and it’s not an easy ride (both literally and metaphorically) for Casey to get there. That is, until she comes across a wild horse destined for the knackers yard in the back streets of Hackney. She writes with a thrilling competency that reminded me of some of the greats of horse fiction – Caroline Akrill, Ginny Elliot and Patricia Leitch.Ĭasey Blue is a fairly typical horse-mad teenager.
It’s written by the superb Lauren St John (author of the amazing Laura Marlin series) and St John knows her horse world. Full of urban edge, and yet never quite losing that fairytale element all good horse stories have, The One Dollar Horse is a book that pony lovers will adore.
Casey learns the hard way that no matter how high you jump, or how fast you gallop, you can never outrun the past.A real life thriller that delves into the competitive and elite equestrian world from the 2011 BLUE PETER BOOK OF THE YEAR award-winning author.The One Dollar Horse provides a much needed twenty-first century spin to the horse story. But she has reckoned without the consequences of her father's criminal record, or the distraction of a boy with melty, dark eyes, with whom she refuses to fall in love. A thriller set in the equestrian world about making the impossible possible, about reaching the top on a one dollar horse.Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world's greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials.When she rescues a starving, half-wild horse, she's convinced that the impossible can be made possible. John 4.24 2,486 ratings225 reviews Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London’s grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world’s greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials.
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