

Lois Lamplugh worked part time at a residential school for boys with special problems. She also wrote prolifically: 310 stories for a Harlech televsion series Tucker and Taylor, and novels including The Rifle House Friends. She has written one book with some equine content: The Winter Donkey.
Finding the book: easy to find.
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Dustjacket of The Winter Donkey
Lois Lamplugh
The Winter Donkey
Andre Deutsch, London, 1980, cover Glenys Ambrus, 126 pp.
Matthew’s little sister tries to persuade his grandfater to winter one of his beach
donkeys on his Cornish smallholding.
Eventually he agrees, though their grandmother
says “Animals always mean tears.” When it is Easter, and time
for Goldie to go back,
Matthew remembers these words.
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