Book Review: “The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls” by Anton DiSclafani {with thanks to Headline}
Southern-feel, buried secrets and suspense to keep you on your toes, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a peak into a time Thea Atwell will never forget…
Publisher: Tinder Press
Release Date: 6th June 2013
Source: Publisher
Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is ‘exiled’ from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of ‘female education’ yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots…
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls was mesmerising; I felt as if I were reading something like a diary from another place in time. The descriptive scenes were so vividly displayed that I could picture it clearly. The novel is set in North Carolina in 1930, after Thea; the main character, is exiled from her home in Florida. You can buy The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls from June 6th at all major bookstores! To find out more about the book, click here or join the conversation on twitter and hash tag #Yonahlossee!
