Jane Badger Books
Jill Maughan
An author who wrote just the one pony book, as far as I am aware. She was born in 1958 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has various jobs including journalism and copywriting. Currently, she is working part-time at a school for boys with behavioural and emotional problems.
Deceivers is an interesting story: it’s about a riding school owner who is pretty unhinged, and is spectacularly lucky not be arrested. However, fortunately for the plot, she isn’t. Janey Squires, the riding school owner, is possibly one of the most unpleasant characters in children’s pony books. She is devious, manipulative, volatile and paranoid. And yes, she is just as bad as I’ve made her sound.
The book itself, which saw its first and only publication as an Armada original, is reasonably easy to find, and not usually expensive.
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Literature North East
Deceivers is an interesting story: it’s about a riding school owner who is pretty unhinged, and is spectacularly lucky not be arrested. However, fortunately for the plot, she isn’t. Janey Squires, the riding school owner, is possibly one of the most unpleasant characters in children’s pony books. She is devious, manipulative, volatile and paranoid. And yes, she is just as bad as I’ve made her sound.
The book itself, which saw its first and only publication as an Armada original, is reasonably easy to find, and not usually expensive.
Sources
Literature North East
The Deceivers
Armada, 1990, pb. Not illustrated
Lucy, at last, is going to get a pony of her own, which she will keep at Janey Squire’s riding school. After various awful adult shenanigans, Lucy buys Dance: an ex steeplechaser, he is not exactly easy to control, and Lucy can’t. Janey Squire’s bitter rival is Angelica Kent of the Manor’s Hall Riding School, and everything Janey does is aimed at bringing Angelica down.
No one can help Lucy control Dance, and eventually she has to betray her loyalties to get the help she needs.
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