June Newsletter; RELEASED TODAY!

 

Hi everyone,

After some sweltering weeks here in Wales, the most exciting week is ahead of me. Today, Lamplight to Sunlight is released! It’s available as eBook, paperback and hardback. If you click on the link above, it will take you into the first few pages for a preview.

I’m also looking forward to the book launch at Storyville books in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales on the 22nd. 18.30 to 20.00. If by chance any of you are in the area, you’re very welcome and I’d love to see you!

I also have a new Facebook page for everyone to share any memories, family tales, anecdotes and pictures. https://www.facebook.com/Pitponymemories

Here are some of the smashing 5 star reviews that have come in so far. If you read it, I’d love to hear what you think of it.

A beautiful book written about about the grit, grime, gloom and dangers of life down the mines from the ponies’ perspective. This book is a rich seam of valuable historical information about those lives and the lives of the miners facing the constant risk of injury and death as they went abut their work. That was until pit ponies careers in the mines ended in the late 1990’s, only a generation ago. Then they were brought to the surface forever from lamplight to sunlight, from pit to paddock to have second lives. It is not often an author’s words can make my eyes moisten. Anna managed it with a couple of these second life stories of the ponies and the people who gave them that chance to feel grass beneath their feet, sunshine on their backs and clean air to breath.

It is also a story that we can all take a lesson from. That is no matter how dark things get there will always be light.

An easy read that flows enthrallingly.

‘Written from the perspective of some of the pit ponies that left the mines to live new lives above ground, Lamplight to Sunlight is a wonderful account of ponies allowed to live their best lives after giving their all. Sensitively written, Anna incorporates her love of and experiences with horses with well researched facts to create some memorable characters. The retelling of her research is a meaningful preface to the stories that follow and provide us as readers with insight into some of the workings of the mines and the wonderful equines that made the life of the miners a little easier. An awesome read, that flows and draws you in from the first word. Often we are left wanting to know what happened next and this book tells you just that.’