The Little White Horse (Booktober)

 

"He is lost and gone and now I do not know

 If it was a little white horse that I saw,

 Or only a moonbeam astray in the silver night."

 

 

 

No fall reading list can ever be complete without something along the likes of this. A hidden valley somewhere in England; an old family mystery; and a little girl with a fierce belief in the good of this world, searching for the unicorn that will make everything right again. Elizabeth Goudge created a timeless classic with her Little White Horse fairytale, one that adults and children alike reach for on the daily. Even I do, and often, when the mists dance through my own home valley. Because who knows - maybe you'll be the one to see the little white horse, standing proudly and beckoning!

 

 

 

 

In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. But the enchanted valley of Moonacre is shadowed by a tragedy that happened years ago, and the memory of the Moon Princess and the mysterious little white horse. Determined to restore peace and happiness to the whole of Moonacre Valley, Maria finds herself involved with an ancient feud, and she discovers it is her destiny to end it and right the wrongs of her ancestors. But what can one solitary girl do? 

(from Goodreads)

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Tome Thursday: The Little White Horse

Hello everyone!

So this week I had a little debate with myself about which book I should put in Thursday's blog post, since I finished a couple more than just one prior to writing it, but I decided to somewhat follow in the line-up I read them in, which meant that the others I finished (a short trilogy) will most likely be featured next week, unless I find and/or finish another book or short book series that annoys me about as much as that one did haha! Not even joking, but back to the book I'll be talking about today, it's actually a childhood favourite of mine. I had a couple of those while I was growing up, and have since then not picked that many again for a reread, but this one sort of happened once, by accident, and then I think my mother bought me the Slovene translation and it's been sitting on my shelf in paperback version ever since.

The book I'm talking about is Elizabeth Goudge's 'Little White Horse', as you could already tell from the title of this blog. It's not a long story, it's actually a children's book, and as such you're probably thinking what on Earth am I doing reading it? Well, as a sort of fairtyle, it's something I've always had a soft spot for, and it has horses in it. It was a good enough excuse for me!