Title:
National Velvet
Genre:
Adventure
Children’s
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Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Chapters:
17
Synopsis:
"National Velvet” is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who rides her horse to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The horse which Velvet trains and rides in the Grand National is named The Piebald, because he is a piebald color (black and white).
The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary persons, particularly women, to accomplish great things. Velvet is a teenager in the late 1920s, living in a small English coastal village in Sussex, dreaming of one day owning many horses. She is a high-strung, nervous child with a delicate stomach. Her mother is a wise, taciturn woman who was once famous for swimming the English Channel; her father is a butcher.
Her best friend is her fathers assistant, Mi (Michael) Taylor, whose father – as Mrs. Browns swimming coach – helped her cross the channel. Mi formerly worked in stables and is familiar with the horse racing world. One day they both watch The Piebald jump over a five-foot-high cobbled fence to get out of a field. Mi says, in passing, that "a horse like thatd win the National"[1]. Velvet becomes obsessed with winning the horse in an upcoming raffle and riding him to greatness.
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:59:23
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