Author: Wilma Möller
Swedish original: Allt att vinna
Publisher: Schildts & Söderströms, 2020
Genre: YA
Number of pages: 272 pp.
Reading material: Swedish original, English synopsis
The horse racing world becomes the setting of a fast-paced thriller for young readers.
Nora is about to spend a few weeks on a horse racing competition with her beloved horse Kasimira. Her best friend Lydia is also a part of the competition, along with jockey Leon, who has brown and warm eyes. Everything suggests these will be the best weeks of the whole summer. But already during one of the first evenings Leon receives a threatening letter and one of the jockeys with the best track records disappears. Someone is set on sabotaging the races, and this someone does not shy away from using violence…
She turns the card, and I see the text on the back, written in all capitals in blue ink: DON’T COMPETE. I snatch the postcard from Lydia’s hand. On the front there is an old, black-and-white image of a creepy clown looking both sad and menacing. He is standing under an umbrella even though it isn’t raining. I make a face. What kind of joke is this?” – I say.
All To Win is a fast-paced story set in the horse racing world that gives beautiful insight into the great love between people and horses.
“A thrilling intrigue with threats, attacks, a missing jockey and the racing world and stable hierarchy lay the ground for a page-turning read with engaging cliffhangers” – Hufvudstadsbladet
About the author
Wilma Möller