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Finding Hope

A Whistledown Farm Adventure: Book #1

by Nicola Baker

Narrator Kristin Atherton

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Length 4 hours 21 minutes

Language English

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“This charming middle grade book is a lovely nod to All Creatures Great & Small, but with a young, plucky protagonist. When Ava goes to stay with her extended family on their Yorkshire farm, she quickly learns the high's and the low's of country life. Eager to fit in and shed her big city persona, she rolls up her sleeves to help. Along the way, she meets a lovely lost lamb she calls Hope, begins to crack the icy relationship she has with her cousin and finds time to solve a gentle mystery. This was a delightful listening experience, enriched by the Yorkshire-tipped narration. This is the first in a new series, that does wrap up with a satisfying conclusion. ”
— Thalia • Paper & String Books

Summary
About the author

The first book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales. Perfect for readers 8+ and fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Dick King Smith and The Snow Foal. With stunning illustrations from Rachael Dean throughout.

When ten-year-old Ava moves to Whistledown Farm while her parents are working abroad, she must swap city life for mud, wellies and animals. But as one catastrophe follows another, will Ava learn to love life on the farm and find hope in nature? And can a very special little lamb show Ava that when all might seem lost, hope can be found...

‘Baker is a gifted writer, and her bucolic adventure harks back to classic farm stories such as those written by Dick King Smith and Michael Morpurgo’ The Bookseller

About the author:

Growing up, Nicola spent hours with her nose stuck in a book or filling notebooks with stories and sketches. After a successful career as a physiotherapist and raising two children she’s now come full circle and is writing again.

Nicola lives on a smallholding with her husband and two children. When she’s not mucking out chickens or feeding the sheep you’ll find her writing adventure stories for children.

Children's

Growing up, Nicola spent hours with her nose stuck in a book or filling notebooks with stories and sketches. After a successful career as a physiotherapist and raising two children she’s now come full circle and is writing again.

Nicola lives on a smallholding in the Chiltern Hills with her husband and two children. When she’s not mucking out chickens or feeding the sheep you’ll find her writing adventure stories for children.