KM Peyton, the much-loved author of more than 70 novels and grande dame of the pony book genre has died aged 94. Best known for her Flambards trilogy with its background of the First World War, hunting and early flying machines, she had a lucid literary style that never pandered to the idea that children […]
KM Peyton, the grande dame of pony fiction, who has died aged 94, produced more than 70 novels, typically concerning difficult, often motherless, girls of indeterminate age, saved from self-destruction by their passion for horses and sometimes exploding out of the stable yard into romances with dashing or unreliable young men.