Wendover Bookshop - Flambards, K M Peyton

Twelve-year-old orphan Christina is sent to live with her uncle Russell and his two sons in the decaying old mansion house, Flambards. There she finds a strange, brooding household dominated by her crippled uncle, with his passion for horses, his sudden rages and callous cruelty.

Her two cousins could not be more different - Mark, with a bullying charm and sharing his father's love of fox-hunting, and Will who hates anything to do with hunting or horses and yearns only to build and fly aeroplanes.

Ordered to learn to ride by her uncle, Christina discovers, to her surprise, that she enjoys it and finds in her teacher, the stable-lad Dick, a sympathetic friend to steer her through the emotional undercurrents and discord which divide the Russell household.

The Flamards is the first of a series of four books. The story starts in the period before the First World War, and is continued in The Edge of the Cloud and Flambards In Summer, both set during the First World War.

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if you like this book we recommend:

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Other books by K.M. Peyton that we recommend include The Edge of the Cloud.