Jill's Ponies: Black Boy and Rapide

Jill Crewe lived in a small village, Chatton, during the 1950s and enjoyed an idyllic life riding ponies, having adventures and attending gymkhanas. She grows up and has to sell her two beloved ponies Black Boy and Rapide. They went to the same family so that they could be together but then had to be sold on separately. This story picks up on the ponies' lives with their new owners. Lavender Ellison-Heath is a young girl, a single child with a mother who wants her to win in gymkhanas so that she can gain entry to the local county set. She has learned to ride on Black Boy and has had some riding lessons from Jill Crewe. Morgan Pevensy is the youngest child of the horse-mad Pevensy family and she has inherited Rapide from her sister Porsche, who is now in adult riding classes. This book follows on from Ruby Ferguson and Jemma Spark's Jill books which have followed the life of Jill Crewe. Now the focus is on the ponies and what happens to them.