{"id":22413,"date":"2022-12-19T14:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/?p=132209"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:43:18","slug":"meet-author-nicola-chester","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/rss_feed\/meet-author-nicola-chester\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet author Nicola Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Nicola Chester\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 19 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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I\u2019ve always described myself as a \u2018country girl\u2019 but, increasingly, I wonder what that means. Growing up on the rural edge of small towns or villages, it was a defining, fierce and helpful moniker. It symbolised certain things about me I wanted to show or be \u2013 a kind of \u201cbut I belong out there\u201d.<\/p>\n

Specifically though, for me, it meant I was someone immersed in nature, who \u2018understood\u2019 and wanted to know things. From my childhood bedroom-carpet model farm, to the pony books and rural novels I read endlessly, the working, rural life was everything.<\/p>\n

Writing about horses (a lifelong obsession). This book\u2019s a gem, & I\u2019m lost in it, & the pony book world I\u2019ve never truly left. It was revolutionary in many ways. Courageous, adventurous girls with little or no means, that found a way: sometimes lost it again. I may be some time.. pic.twitter.com\/MEFJwMIsIc<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Nicola Chester (@nicolawriting) December 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>