About the author
Joan Hallett is, as far as I know, a single book author. She wrote The Bucking Chestnut at the age of sixteen, and she wrote it ‘for all pony lovers, and especially for those who are not yet lucky enough to possess a pony of their own’.
The book gets a mention in Frank Palmer’s Literature and Moral Understanding, a discussion of the difference between fiction and fantasy, in which he quotes an extract from the book.
Sources
Dustjacket of The Bucking Chestnut
Finding the book
A very hard book to find indeed, and consequently often extremely expensive.
Bibliography (horse books only)
The bucking chestnut
Collins, London, 1950, 255 pp. Illus Marjorie Christie, jacket design Marcia Lane Foster
A chestnut pony has been turned out to grass as no one is able to ride him. The pony’s future is something that involves three girls: Patsy, who has been promised a pony if she wins a scholarship, Charmian, Patsy’s friend, and Priscilla, who wants the pony herself.
The pony is bought by one of them, but that is not the end of the story.
