![]() ![]() ![]() The actual setting is a small island called Thisby (which I imagined was off the Scottish coast, but the novel doesn’t make the setting clear) in the early part of the 20th century. If the novel is set in Britain, which I pretended it was. This anecdote is probably tangential to this review of American young adult author Maggie Stiefvater’s standalone 2011 novel The Scorpio Races, but if it proves anything, the British sure like their horses. If I remember this right, the ponies would get rounded up each year by the locals and would be taken to London where they would be sold for a pound each. Yes, there are wild ponies in Dartmoor belonging to no one but the land. The weirdest thing was all the wild ponies running around. That wasn’t the weirdest thing about the place, though. One of the strongest memories I have of the country and the vacation overall is when we visited Dartmoor, which looked like an alien planet to me with all the craggily rocks jutting out all over the place. ![]() Fifteen years ago this month, I visited England with some members of my family. ![]()
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