The Carpenter and Other Stories - Paperback

About ten years before she started writing this book, Susan Price came across a quote, in Haldane's Drove Roads of Scotland, about drove dogs walking home by themselves at the end of a drove. Only much later did she learn about 'bondagers' or bonded labourers, from her Scottish partner. The two bits of information came together and inspired this book, the first book by this award-winning author to be self-published without having been previously published elsewhere. In researching the book, Price and her partner followed the drove road to Mull. Thankfully, their transport and accommodation was rather better than they would have had as early 19th Century drovers. Susan Price won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for The Ghost Drum, the first in her Ghost World Sequence. She won The Guardian Fiction prize for The Sterkarm Handshake.