K M Peyton has died.

[JubileeJumps]

I read her books voraciously as a teenager - waiting on tenterhooks for the next one to come out. She really was amazingly talented.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/02/km-peyton-obituary-kathleen-peyton?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I loved Dear Fred. I never met anyone else who read it.

@Vroomfondleswaistcoat that was The Team - the second Ruth Hollis one. Yes I remember that scene, it was really unusual!

Absolutely loved Flambards. I mentally cast the boy I had a crush on as Will as he did look like the actor playing the part in the TV series and he was also called William. I then quickly ordered the books before the first series had finished airing to read up on our wonderful elopement and then boom, I cried for a week and couldn’t tell anyone why.

I loved these books.

I remember reading Dear Fred at some point when I was a teenager. I took it out from the library. Can remember the cover but not much about the story.

Dear Fred such a good book. I can still remember her descriptions of his wife. I read Fred Archers biography after I’d read it - I was a strange teenager.

I loved Dear Fred, I still have a copy! Probably the first book I read that would now perhaps be called Young Adult?

I loved Who Sir?Me Sir? Reread it not long ago and still enjoyed it - the characters were great, all with their own believable teenage issues and attitudes.

I'm not sure I've read Who sir? Me Sir? I'll have a look.

Me too! I grew up to be a teacher, and was always good at dealing with boys like Penn because I felt I could empathise with them. The sheer pettiness of his form teacher enraged me!

I love the Pennington books and all of their roots and offshoots. Great that nearly all of her work is on Kindle. Sad news.

"He turned over a page, and played on. He was supremely happy, and playing the Bach was as fitting a way to feel happy at that moment as any other he could think of. It was beautiful in its ordered sanity; it was unbothered, tranquil, unpetty, utterly controlled and of inspired perfection. He could not think of words to express it, but the feelings were like silk. He felt wonderful, and played with total concentration, content that this was what he was going to do. It had all come right, and the Bach was the most right thing of all".

That's sad news. Loved Flambards and its TV adaptation. (Incidentalky, there was a great book by Christine McKenna who played Christina, all about desperately trying to learn to ride because she'd lied to the producers that she could!(
I also loved A Pattern of Roses. I did an author study on her and wrote to her. She wrote a lovely letter back.

This is such sad news. I loved her books so much. I think I found her because I watched the adaptation of Who, Sir? Me, Sir? when it was on tv, then got the book, and then wanted to read more of hers.

I loved the Pennington books, but the ones I read over and over again were the Flambards ones. Well, technically Flambards and The Edge of the Cloud and then the first chapter or so of Flambards in Summer.

The Edge of the Cloud was one of my favourite books as a teen as I was so absorbed by Will and Christina's relationship.

Hi all,

I never post here but I am inspired to by this thread. I came on to mention 'Why Didn't They Tell the Horses?' by Christine McKenna, but it's already on here. Very entertaining. I LOVED the books. I've read them a few times. I've got all the DVDs of the TV series as well.

I'm disappointed that Ruth gave up horses. Did we ever find out why? Also, we're always told how she (and later she and Patrick) have no money, but Toadhill Flax must have been worth a bit by the time she'd rescued him from the auction and got him back into condition and trained him up again, then presumably sold him. I want to know what happened to Toad!

They were probably hugely successful and very happy.

Another one who loved her books as a teen. I think I shall reread, having seen this thread 😊

Didnt Toad go to stay with the McNairs? When Ruth and Penn first started getting interested in each other he asked her what she did at weekends and she saif she went up to the McNairs.

Radio adaption of Flambards:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w78m?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Thank yoy!

Sad news, but a wonderful legacy left behind.

Fantastic. Thanks.

Just came on to post this!

I read The blind beauty over and over when I found it, also loved flambards but blind beauty was always my favourite.