"I can, without qualification, recommend this book to readers as one they will enjoy immensely. Not only is it beautifully done in literary terms, the portraits of animals, people and events sharply drawn, it is also funny, charming, and while very perceptive in an off-beat, quirky way, it never fails in its generosity." SHARON BUTALA

This is the story of a remarkable woman who undertook to restore an equally remarkable farm. When Anny Scoones purchased the long neglected Glamorgan farm, "creeping morning glory was swallowing up the log structures", though the buildings themselves still stood solidly after 100 years of West Coast dampness. Scoones' quest to restore the farm is a story as mesmerizing in its telling as it is in the fascinating details of the squatters and real characters who people the pages. Illustrated in colour by Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak