Victoria Eveleigh - Children's Author

Victoria Eveleigh was born in London, but her heart has always been in the countryside and she spent as many of her school holidays as possible at West Ilkerton Farm – her grandmother’s farm on Exmoor.

After completing a masters degree in farm business management, Victoria lived at West Ilkerton and worked part-time for the Exmoor National Park Authority, creating information leaflets and guided walks. Soon she met Chris, who was the farm manager on a nearby farm. They married in 1986 and spent their honeymoon on Lundy, an island off the North Devon coast. Lundy has become a special place for them, and they return whenever they can.

For the past 25 years Chris and Victoria have farmed West Ilkerton. They have a son called George and a daughter called Sarah. When Sarah was a girl she had an Exmoor pony called Tinkerbell. Their eventful partnership inspired Victoria to write her first stories: a trilogy about a girl and an Exmoor pony growing up together on an Exmoor hill farm. The Katy's Exmoor trilogy was illustrated by Chris. The Katy's Exmoor trilogy were published by Orion in 2012 as Katy's Wild Foal, Katy's Champion Pony and Katy's Pony Surprise. The books also include author's notes, plenty of inside illustrations by Chris and beautiful cover illustrations by Angelo Rinaldi.  A Stallion Called Midnight was also published in 2012.

The first of a brand new trilogy by Victoria is published in 2013 with Orion. With horses and ponies at its heart, but this time a boy will be the main character. Her stories are full of the things she loves: horses and ponies, the countryside, farming and people.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Victoria Eveleigh

A Stallion Called Midnight
Victoria Eveleigh
A perfect story for pony-lovers in which Jenny secretly befriends a wild stallion on the island of Lundy. It is heart-rending but ultimately uplifting and it will bring you close to tears at times.  It takes its inspiration from a...
Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/06/2012
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Katy's Pony Surprise (Katy's Ponies)
Victoria Eveleigh
All the magic of owning a pony is brilliantly captured in this last delightful story about Katy and her Exmoor pony Trifle. Together, Katy and her pony overcome challenges and achieve great success before Trifle comes up with a very...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Pony Mad
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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Katy's Champion Pony (Katy's Ponies)
Victoria Eveleigh
Pony mad Katy is growing in confidence and ambition. Despite changes at Barton Farm and losing both her best-friend and her knowledgeable aunt, Katy is determined to train her pony Trifle to be a champion. It’s a much harder task...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Pony Mad
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Katy's Wild Foal (Katy's Ponies)
Victoria Eveleigh
How Katy discovers a newborn Exmoor foal on her birthday and persuades her family that she can look after it launches a tender and convincing story of one girl’s passion for ponies. Victoria Eveleigh gives enough details of pony care...
Featured in: 7+ readers | Pony Mad
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Joe and the Hidden Horseshoe A Boy and His Horses
Victoria Eveleigh
There are lots of things Joe would wish if he had the chance - that his family hadn't moved from the city to the country, that his mum hadn't bought two ponies no one could ride, and that one day...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Pony Mad
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
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