Teresa Merry Hewitt

Teresa lives in the Cotswolds with her husband and younger daughter. She has worked with children as a playgroup and gym club assistant, but her real passion has always been writing. Still waiting for the great English novel to take shape, she has written short stories for magazines including People’s Friend and My Weekly, and contributed human interest items to a number of publications including The Guardian and Readers’ Digest.

Apples In My Pocket is the story of a dreaming teenager who enters the world of riding. With her bargain-basement pony and keen but bungling mother, she starts on the bottom rung and progresses through a series of near-disasters and minor triumphs to reach her personal fulfilment. The characters in a small Cotswold community are keenly observed and the story unfolds through scenes of uproarious hilarity and touching poignancy. At the end of the day, our pony-hero, Cloots, will win any reader’s heart.

This is first and foremost a funny book: all riders will recognise the joys and the pitfalls that horse ownership brings, but no general reader will read the story without laughing out loud. It may be the funniest book they will ever read.