Jill has been dreaming of getting another pony, and here she is, with her prospective new pony in front of her. There's just one problem. Jill doesn't like Rapide, and Rapide doesn't like her. Despite this, Jill buys him, but she immediately regrets it. How Jill gets over her dislike of Rapide, and how she and her friends save Mrs Darcy's riding school, make this a classic of pony literature.

Independent, wry, and unstoppable, Jill and her ponies have been loved for generations.Jill Crewe and her mother have moved to Chatton. Jill has nothing to do, as school hasn't started, but there is a pony down the road, and Jill makes friends with him. She longs to buy him, but money is tight. And then ... Jill is able to to buy Black Boy. It's a dream come true, but Jill very soon finds out there's a lot more to owning a pony than she realised. And she doesn't know how to do any ...

Jill is sunk in gloom. All her plans have been utterly ruined. She cannot ride at Chatton Show because she has hurt her wrist swinging the hen bucket. But although she has to miss the show, Jill doesn't remain downcast for long, because the summer holidays stretch before her and her friends. They'll help organise the fete at Blossom Hall, for a start. Then Dinah Dean appears: a neglected child who is desperate to ride, and who produces some very conflicted emotions in Jill. Jill's conscien...

"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom never turned up and the bride swooned at the altar.""Have you practised swooning?"It's 1948 in the Scottish Highlands, with postwar austerity and rationing in full effect, but Mr and Mrs MacAlvey and their family and friends are too irrepressibly cheerful to let it get them down. There's Raine, newly engaged to the brother of a local farmer, and Cleo, just bac...

"Other people make a success of riding clubs and I don't see why we shouldn't. It's about the only thing we haven't tried in Chatton."Ann Derry, Jill's greatest friend, has a bright idea. They need something to do in the summer, so why not start a riding club? Or, to be more accurate, why doesn't Jill start a riding club? Jill is not keen to start with but with typical Jill verve, start a riding club is exactly what she does. Not everything goes to plan: it's much harder w...

The Jill series is one of the classics of pony fiction. In this second book, disaster has hit Jill's plans. No pony-filled summer for her: her mother is going to America, and so Jill must go and stay with her defiantly un-horsy cousin, Cecilia. Cecilia's idea of a good summer pursuit is pressing flowers. It's not Jill's. But there is hope on the horizon, when Jill meets a family who are desperate to find a way they can keep their pony. Jill suggests they all get together and start their ow...

Schottland in den dreißiger Jahren: Dacre, ein Anwalt aus England, und sein Freund Van Elsen aus New York sind zum Golfen hergekommen. Aber bald schon ist die Erkundung der Highlands faszinierender als das Spiel. Von Edinburgh aus fahren sie die Küste hinauf, folgen dem windumtosten Blau und stehen plötzlich vor den Toren von Keepsfield. Das klassizistische Anwesen verschlägt ihnen den Atem. Seit Jahrzehnten verlassen, versucht nur noch die Hausdame Mrs Memmary, die Erinnerungen zu bewahre...

Pony Jobs for Jill is the most controversial Jill book by a long way.Earlier on in the series, Captain Cholly-Sawcutt offered Jill a job when she left school. That’s not quite what happens when Jill and Ann do leave school. They’re kicking their heels, unsure of what to do next, and fighting off their mothers’ attempts to send them off to do something useful. Domestic science, say. Or floristry.And then Ann finds an advertisement from someone who wants people to he...

It's happened again. Jill has planned a summer filled with her ponies and her friends, but something has happened. The Cortman Kids, Melly and Lindo, are coming to stay. For the summer. With their endless list of things they can do and Jill can't, like tennis. And they've come with their dogs. For the Cortmans are dog people, not horse people.Jill has no choice but to make the best of it, and the Cortmans help out by deciding they'd like to learn to ride. They are then bought a stu...

"Really, Jill I never knew anybody like you for falling on your feet. When other people would be landed in an absolute mess, you find yourself a house and plenty to eat."Jill and her friends are going on a pony trek. Of course, nothing goes absolutely to plan, especially when Jill and Ann manage to forget where they're supposed to be meeting up with the rest of the trek. Rather than have to spend the night shivering in a ditch, they manage to come to the rescue of someone ...

Amanda Applewood is not particularly keen on riding, and she's certainly not keen on using up her valuable holidays joining the Lockett family for a riding competition. Jill, on the other hand, would love it. Amanda suggests Jill take her place, on her perfect pony, Plum. It seems like utter heaven to Jill, until she arrives at the Locketts' and finds Amanda hasn't actually told them Jill is going in her place ... They think she's Amanda. And they don't like Amanda. Jill is so furious with...