Nop's Hope Book

This is the sequel to Nop's Trials. It takes place some 8 or 9 years later and focuses around Penny (Lewis's daughter) and her dog, Hope (Nop's son). After suffering a horrible tragedy (which goes unnamed through the beginning and becomes clearer as you get further into the book), Penny sets off on her own to follow the sheepdog trial circuit with Hope. Lewis and his wife, Beverly, are distressed at her leaving and not being in contact, so try to seek her out on the road numerous times, even going so far as to enter Nop (now an old dog...presumably 10 or 11) in some trials.

In some ways, this was more the story of a woman coming to grips with a terrible tragedy than a story about dogs, and focused less on the dog and less on the human-dog bond than the first book did. I enjoyed it, though not as much as the first.