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A fast-paced adventure story full of heart, courage – and horses.
Ella and Johnny are distraught when Johnny's horse Storm disappears from his field. Johnny knows that he has been taken by 'the pound man'. Ella and Johnny aren't going to let Storm go that easily, but it means hatching with a daring plan to rescue him.
"Leyden captures Ella’s emotional life with great conviction as she struggles to deal with her fraught family life… The prejudice that drives the plot is subtly introduced and resolved with great compassion." Sara Keating, The Irish Times
Paula Leyden won the Éilís Dillon award for her first children’s novel The Butterfly Heart, which is set in Zambia; its sequel, The Sleeping Baobab Tree, won the Children’s Books Ireland special judges’ award. She lived in Kenya, Zambia and South Africa before moving to Ireland, where she now works extensively with the Travelling community and horses.