Mother Wants A Horse

By: Diana Walker

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Synopsis: [from the back cover:] MOTHER WANTS A HORSE When her father announces to sixteen-year-old Joanna that she is to give up her beloved job at Holmwood Farms, and possibly even her riding lessons, for special coaching in English, it is more than she can bear. On furious impulse she seizes a horse from the Farms--the huge black Othello--and takes him for a mad gallop over the fields. The wild ride comes to a calamitous end: Joanna suffers a spinal injury and faces six months to a year of recuperation--off horses. For Joanna, who has pinned all her hopes on representing the Farms at the Toronto Royal Horse Show, it is undeniably the end of the world. In this absorbing and delightful sequel to The Year of the Horse, heroine Joanna Longfellow is off on a diverting succession of new adventures. Grounded from competition and necessarily preoccupied with studies, Joanna is forced to look beyond her own narrow concerns. Through her increasing involvement with her English tutor's family and her enthusiasm for the riding school she opens at the Farms, Joanna turns what began as the worst year of her life into one filled with unexpected rewards. By the time she is ready to ride again, the headstrong girl of that flight through the fields has learned that disappointment and compromise have a place on the road to personal fulfillment.