Bobby of Cloverfield Farm

On Cloverfield Farm, spring arrives like a promise. Young Bobby Hill wakes each morning to the sound of roosters and the smell of wet earth, his loyal dog Rover at his heels. This is a world where making a kite becomes an adventure, where washing and shearing the sheep marks the turning of seasons, where every hollow and barn holds possibility. Bobby's days are filled with the honest work and simple pleasures that defined rural American childhood in an earlier century: the thrill of watching his kite catch the wind, the comfort of his family's presence, the responsibility of caring for creatures dependent on him. Helen Fuller Orton writes with the kind of tender observation that makes forgotten moments feel precious again. This is not a book about extraordinary events but about the extraordinary in the ordinary. For readers who remember the particular loneliness and wonder of childhood, who long for a slower world where a boy's only concerns are his dog and his kite, this novel holds that vanished time gently in its pages.