Book description
Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich, and like many a
girl, she yearned for a pony. She was never to get one, but this
didn't stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes
Were Horses is the story of that all-consuming interest, and of the
author's nervewracked attempts later in life to ride once again.
However, as Susanna Forrest's journey unfolds, it leads her to
horse-obsessed princesses, recovering crack addicts, courtesans,
warriors, pink-obsessed schoolgirls, national heroines and runaways
across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age, to lavishly
adorned equestrian Victorians and twenty-first-century children on
horseback in Brixton, she explores the development of this Pony Cult
from its earliest times to the present day. In doing so, she takes to
the saddle once more and rediscovers her own riding legs in this
frank, eclectic and captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world.
