KM Peyton, doyenne of pony fiction who won the Carnegie Medal for her Flambards series – obituary
KM Peyton, the grande dame of pony fiction, who has died aged 94, produced more than 70 novels, typically concerning difficult, often motherless, girls of indeterminate age, saved from self-destruction by their passion for horses and sometimes exploding out of the stable yard into romances with dashing or unreliable young men.