{"product_id":"a-pony-for-sale","title":"A Pony for Sale","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(16, 57, 72, 0.75); font-family: Manuale, serif; font-size: 16.8px; letter-spacing: 0.63px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eGuy Beaumont is thrilled when his mare has a foal he calls Martini. Guy breaks her in carefully and is determined to find the right home when she is to be sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(16, 57, 72, 0.75); font-family: Manuale, serif; font-size: 16.8px; letter-spacing: 0.63px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eHer new owner, Pip, is thrilled with her beautiful new pony. But Pip is a nervous rider who finds it terribly difficult to stand up for herself. She doesn’t understand how to ride Martini in the best way, and she gets only the wrong sort of advice from her best friend. It all ends in disaster. Martini is sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(16, 57, 72, 0.75); font-family: Manuale, serif; font-size: 16.8px; letter-spacing: 0.63px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eLydia Pike is a professional rider, although only a teenager. She buys Martini as she thinks she can improve her and sell her on. Lydia’s idea of improvement is to beat and punish Good Form, as she calls Martini, until she does what she wants. She fails, and Martini is sent off to market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(16, 57, 72, 0.75); font-family: Manuale, serif; font-size: 16.8px; letter-spacing: 0.63px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eLettie Lonsdale buys her, her head filled with theories of equitation Lydia can only laugh at. But bit by bit, Lettie and Martini get to know and understand each other, and Martini starts to be the pony she always promised to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgba(16, 57, 72, 0.75); font-family: Manuale, serif; font-size: 16.8px; letter-spacing: 0.63px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eThis book was published in the 1950s when hunting was legal and it does contain hunting scenes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Badger Books","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67541167997232,"sku":"9781914389894","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/a-pony-for-sale","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}