The rocking-horse winner

Description:

A boy growing up in a household where there is no love and no luck but always a shortage of money develops an uncanny ability to pick horse-race winners while furiously riding his wooden rocking-horse.

subjects: Fiction,  Mothers and sons,  Horse racing,  Greed,  Rocking horses,  Children's stories, English,  Children's fiction,  Toys, fiction,  Family life,  Horses, fiction,  Mothers and sons, fiction,  Horse racing, fiction,  Greed, fiction

People: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)