A hundred years ago in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar the daughter of an English 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 upbringing. She teaches them to speak tells
them stories and insists on polite manners. But as the decades pass tourists come to the
mountains a hotel is built and yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there isone place in the
world where they would be protected - her ancestral home at Farley Towers. When a boy and his
sister stumble upon her hidden valley she knows she has found the courageous people who will
carry out her plan.The excited yetis are smuggled into the bridal suite at the hotel. A freezer
lorry is waiting to put them into semi-hibernation on the long trip home. But the baby yak that
has fallen in love withthe youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan and they set off on a
hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world.In the Sultan of Aslerfan's kingdom the
yetis release all the animals from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a lost 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...This early novel never submitted for publication
contains all the trademark qualities that made Eva's subsequent books so successful comedy
loveable and eccentric characters perfectly-crafted plotting and inspiring themes of
tolerance kindness to animals and the defeat of cruelty.
