Finding Black Beauty

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Jul 1, 2024

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Told from the perspective of a young girl who masquerades as a boy in order to become a groom, this is the other side of BLACK BEAUTY. Aspiring groom Jo comes to love Beauty and when they are separated she travels to London to find him – on the way solving the mystery of her long-lost mother.
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