12-year-old Clodagh is delighted when she wakes up one morning and a friendly pony has appeared in the field beside her home. As she gets to know Ozzie, and begins to fall in love with him, disaster strikes and Ozzie is sold to the local riding school - that doesn't have a good reputation on how it treats horses. Clodagh needs to come up with a plan to save Ozzie, and do it fast.

This was a very sweet book that called out to the 12-year-old pony mad little girl i used to be (and low key still am, won't lie). Obviously I'm not the target audience for this book but I still really enjoyed it - it's simple but heartwarming and follows a little girl determined to save the pony she loves.

I wasn't mad about the trope that appeared in this book (and has appeared in other horse books) that people from a more privileged background do horse-riding just for the sake of it and don't really like horses at all which I have always hated and in my own experience, I've found that anyone who does horse-riding as a child is either born into a horsey family or is obsessed with horses. So I hate when that trope shows up in a book.

I also thought it odd that Clodagh's parents didn't really help her when it came to her plan with Ozzie - her mam was clearly a nice person, and they didn't stop her plan to buy Ozzie but it felt very realistic that a 12-year-old with an after school job could save up enough money to buy a horse (so why encourage it?) but I guess it's also realistic that a horse would only be £400.

I liked this a lot(though it was a bit short) and I'm looking forward to continuing with the series.