I would have read it in the 80s. It was a collection of short stories/extracts aimed at girls, probably teenagers, I think with some line-drawing illustrations, hardback.
I only remember a few of the stories — one about a girl who’d moved unwillingly to a new town and was attending a new secondary modern, who had an imaginary pony called Suntan, I think called ‘Suntan and the Spy.’ One gruesome one about a massacre of British women and children in Cawnpore during the Indian mutiny. One rather disturbing story about a girl alone in an isolated mountain chalet hiding from a strange man who can see in all the windows and who turns out to have murdered her neighbour. One called ‘Comin’ Through the Rye’ which featured the poem as a refrain. There may have been an extract from Anna Karenina, the part where Vronsky rides Frou-Frou too hard in the race.
Does any of this ring the remotest bell with anyone?
Thank you!