In which 1935 novel does a 14 year old girl ride The Piebald to victory in The Grand National?
National Velvet National Velvet National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935. "National Velvet" is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who trains and rides her horse, named The Piebald, to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary people, 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, shy, nervous child with a delicate stomach. Her mother is a wise, taciturn woman
A Year in the Merde is an emotional rollercoaster ride. In all, West has sex with four different women during that year: Élodie, his boss's daughter; Alexa, who eventually cannot put up with his apolitical outlook on life; Marie, a black girl who willingly drops him when her boyfriend returns from abroad; and Florence, half Indian, the girl with whom he plans to open his own tea room in Paris at the end of the novel. A Year in the Merde A Year in the Merde is a comic novel by Stephen Clarke first published in 2004 under the pen name Paul West. In later