Roy Hunt asked Lissa Oliver:

Hi Lissa, as someone who spent a reasonable amount of time around horses (but not flat racing, showjumpers), I can vouch for the fact that you really know horses and their moods. Just wondering, have you ever considered an Irish version of Black Beauty? or a fictional version of what happened to Shergar!?

Lissa Oliver HaHa! Both would be interesting topics, but dare I say a little too comfortable and not enough menace? I suppose that would be down to how they're approached. If I approached them, I'd not want to cover the same path, so it would be AFTER Shergar's disappearance and too short to say "he was shot soon after", which I believe. I should say I knew him when he was in Newmarket and he was a bit of a terror. So to create a fanciful life after kidnap for him, it would be a sort of Black Beauty-esque story, but not sparking my interest. I love horses and they have such great individual characters - my own is a bit of a "Ralph Wiggum" with the lowest intellect I've ever encountered, but adorable - but for writing, I am more attracted by human character and its complexities. That said, a horse figures prominently as a main character in the novel I'm currently working on, but unlike Black Beauty it isn't told from his view point.

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