November 2013 Debut of the Month.
Thea, with twin Sam, grew up in Florida in the 1920s amid wealth and security. Their slightly older cousin, by two years, Georgie spends a large part of his childhood with the twins. Then something happens between Georgie and Thea and she is packed off to boarding school. Puberty, experimentation, sex appeal, boys … this is the centre of bitchy school gossip, oh, and the love of horses. Thea, well aware of her sex appeal, manipulates and strangely, wins. This is partly a young read with sex and partly an interesting insight into coming-of-age in the 1920s.
Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...
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Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls was written by Anton DiSclafani and published by Tinder Press an imprint of Headline Publishing Group
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls has 392 pages
