If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession. Susanna Forrest

If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession. Susanna Forrest by Susanna Forrest. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780857891273.

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 didnt stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Horses is the story of that all-consuming interest, and of the authors nerve-wracked attempts later in life to ride once again. However, as Susanna Forrests 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 21st-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.