A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter of an Eng
lish earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farley
is introduced to a family of motherless yetis and devotes her life to their upb
ringing. She teaches them to speak, tells them stories and insists on polite man
ners.
But as the decades pass, tourists come to the mountains, a hotel is bui
lt and yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there is one place in the world wh
ere they would be protected - her ancestral home at Farley Towers. When a boy an
d his sister stumble upon her hidden valley, she knows she has found the courage
ous people who will carry out her plan.
The excited yetis are smuggled into t
he bridal suite at the hotel. A freezer lorry is waiting to put them into semi-h
ibernation on the long trip home. But the baby yak that has fallen in love with
the youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan and they set off on a hugely ente
rtaining road trip half way across the world.
In the Sultan of Aslerfan's kin
gdom the yetis release all the animals from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a l
ost child in a blizzard. In Spain, the yak creates chaos at a bullfight.
But
when they arrive in England, a terrible shock awaits them at Farley Towers...Thi
s early novel, never submitted for publication, contains all the trademark quali
ties that made Eva's subsequent books so successful; comedy, loveable and eccent
ric characters, perfectly-crafted plotting, and inspiring themes of tolerance, k
indness to animals, and the defeat of cruelty.
