Appleby Farm
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Narrated by:
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Colleen Prendergast
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By:
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Cathy Bramley
About this listen
Appleby Farm was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package.
Freya Moorcroft has wild red hair, mischievous green eyes, a warm smile and a heart of gold. She's been happy working at the café round the corner from Ivy Lane allotments, and her romance with her new boyfriend is going well, she thinks, but a part of her still misses the beautiful rolling hills of her Cumbrian childhood home: Appleby Farm.
Then a phone call out of the blue and a desperate plea for help change everything....
The farm is in financial trouble, and it's taking its toll on the aunt and uncle who raised Freya. Heading home to lend a hand, Freya quickly learns that things are worse than she first thought. As she summons up all her creativity and determination to turn things around, Freya is surprised as her own dreams for the future begin to take shape.
Love makes the world go round, according to Freya. Not money. But will saving Appleby Farm and following her heart come at a price?
Appleby Farm is a charming, funny and romantic story from the author of best-selling Ivy Lane.
©2015 Cathy Bramley (P)2015 Random House AudioBooksCritic Reviews
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- Catherine
- 31-01-2016
Farmers
I enjoyed Ivy Lane and love Colleen Prendergast as a narrator, but I found the idealisation of animal farming in this book really hard to move past. The farmers are heart broken at the thought of cows going to slaughter for TB, but what do they think usually happens when they sell them? it's a beef farm. They all go to slaughter. I hate how the farmer refers to it as being put to sleep. No, slaughter is a violent process not euthanasia. They talk about how the dairy calfs drink their mother's milk and they take the rest. How idyllic! In real life calfs are separated from their mothers and the males are slaughtered for veal. The dairy industry is a bloody industry.
I persevered with the book for a while, but just couldn't put up with the pro badger culling, pro animal abuse stance of the book any longer so requested a refund.
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- Jackie
- 02-03-2021
Tedious
Not one of Bramley’s better books
Really slow and limited on story with boring characters
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