Martin Chilton * TELEGRAPH ONLINE *Ĭertain to be a huge favourite with readers and will bear comparison with classic horse stories by authors such as Patricia Leitch and KM Peyton. You can't help but identify with this courageous animal and St John makes you feel the thrill of what it must be like to jump over a fence on such a horse with such heart and soul. one of the best characters in this thrilling rags-to-riches tale is Storm Warning. Writerly, full of equestrian knowledge and rich in character - not least of the horse - this is also a tale of first love, and is a handsome package with deep pink-edged pages. Lauren St John's The One Dollar Horse is rare among pony books in setting its dream-come-true story in inner-city London.
The author has a flowing style and an art for bringing her characters to life. There are many twists and turns but the plot is easy to follow and gripping, I would recommend this book for girls aged from twelve through to adult. When not rescuing leopards and dolphins, she is a full-time valet to her rescued, and not in the least demanding, Bengal cat, Max.The One Dollar Horse is certain to be huge favourite with readers and will bear comparison with classic horse stories by authors such as Patricia Leitch and K M Peyton.
Along with her veterinary nursing training, it served as perfect research for her Kat Wolfe mystery series and T he Snow Angel, a standalone MG novel.Ī passionate conservationist, Lauren is an Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, a patron for horse sanctuary, Mane Chance, and the founder of Authors4Oceans.
Before becoming a children’s author, she worked as a journalist for The Sunday Times, writing about sports, music and spies. Dead Man’s Cove, the first in her Laura Marlin Mystery series, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.
Lauren St John grew up surrounded by horses, cats, dogs and a pet giraffe on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe, the inspiration for her bestselling White Giraffe and One Dollar Horse series, as well as her YA horse novel, The Glory.
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