Another 'find that book' thread

[HettySunshine]

Hi all,

Such a tiny amount to go on, sorry.

There's a traveller child who's not allowed into the shop so they ask another child 'buy us a Mars bar.' They explain that they have the money but they're not allowed in.

There's also a really beautiful description of a man walking a dog across a field and it doesn't look like they're moving because there's nothing else in the 'frame' to judge the movement against.

And that's it. Any ideas?

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden?

Diddakoi by Rumer Godden?

Was there a piebald horse on the cover and they went to Appleby horse fair? The girl was also on the cover and wore gold hoop earrings?

That was the copy of The Diddacoi I had!

Several covers but this one's pretty!

Possibly similar covers but the book I’m thinking of doesn’t fit plotwise with the Diddakoi. It’s about a traveller girl whose mother is dead and when her sister marries she has to go back to her father. She does something heroic with a horse in the river.

I don't that's the one but I will investigate!

Actually, I think it might be! You guys are the best. Thank you xxx

The same book was published under a different title, Gypsy Girl, so that might be why it seems unfamiliar.

There was a lovely dramatisation of this by the BBC in the 70s in the children’s tv slot, called Kizzy.

Sorry, that's not the plot of the Diddakoi. It must be something else you are thinking of. This was my favourite book as a child. Kizzy lived with her gran who died. Her extended family came for the funeral and fought over why they couldn't take her with them. She ended up living with the old admiral whose land they had camped on until she was adopted by the local school teacher.