Black Beauty's Family and Other Stories
(2025)A collection of stories by Christine Pullein-Thompson, Diana Pullein-Thompson and Josephine Pullein-Thompson
A collection of stories and long lost pieces from the Pullein-Thompson sisters.
Josephine Pullein-Thompson: Black Raven - set in the West Country when being suspected of being a witch could go very badly for you. That's not the only theme in this story - most of it is a family story. There's a family with very set ideas on what its daughters should do and how they should behave, and Black Raven is the means by which that changes.
Diana Pullein-Thompson: Black Piper. This is a much more traditional Black Beauty type story. Black Piper is born in Ireland, but when the potato famines strike, he has to be sold. This story is an excellent picture of a horse's life pulling coaches on commercial routes. If you like to learn about the way things were for horses, this is a story for you.
Christine Pullein-Thompson: The Challenge. This is is a short story which was probably where Christine tried out the idea for what became The Impossible Horse.
Christine Pullein-Thompson: The Chill Valley Point-to-Point. Christine wrote three books about the Chill Valley Hunt, and this is the fourth. There is some hunting content but the story focuses mainly on the point-to-point. It's incredibly hard to find unless you book a read at the British Library.
Note: hunting was legal when the Chill Valley series was written, and there is a hunting scene in Chill Valley Point-to-Point.
Genre: Children's Fiction
Josephine Pullein-Thompson: Black Raven - set in the West Country when being suspected of being a witch could go very badly for you. That's not the only theme in this story - most of it is a family story. There's a family with very set ideas on what its daughters should do and how they should behave, and Black Raven is the means by which that changes.
Diana Pullein-Thompson: Black Piper. This is a much more traditional Black Beauty type story. Black Piper is born in Ireland, but when the potato famines strike, he has to be sold. This story is an excellent picture of a horse's life pulling coaches on commercial routes. If you like to learn about the way things were for horses, this is a story for you.
Christine Pullein-Thompson: The Challenge. This is is a short story which was probably where Christine tried out the idea for what became The Impossible Horse.
Christine Pullein-Thompson: The Chill Valley Point-to-Point. Christine wrote three books about the Chill Valley Hunt, and this is the fourth. There is some hunting content but the story focuses mainly on the point-to-point. It's incredibly hard to find unless you book a read at the British Library.
Note: hunting was legal when the Chill Valley series was written, and there is a hunting scene in Chill Valley Point-to-Point.
Genre: Children's Fiction
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