Diana Pullein-Thompson: Riding with the Lyntons (paperback)

As I looked at the small sheltered paddock, my thoughts turned to the pony of my imagination... Lesley Warren's parents have decided to move to the countryside after years of city living. There's a pony promised in her future, and perhaps best of all for only-child Lesley, a host of new friends in the irrepressible Lynton clan, who live just up the lane from Sparrow Cottage. She can’t believe her luck when at last she gets to meet them. But when a terrible accident happens to one of the Lyntons' ponies, Lesley is blamed. The Lyntons close ranks on her, and even a pony of her own can't blot out her unhappiness. What will Lesley do? Will they ever forgive her? Will she ever ride with the Lyntons again? Hunting was legal when this book was written in the 1950s, and it includes hunting scenes