{"product_id":"the-drovers-dogs-paperback","title":"The Drover's Dogs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTen-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSandy's life as a 'bonder' is unbearable. He runs away home but his mother makes him return- to another beating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean island of Mull in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the dogs lead him to their croft, Sandy's deepest wish seems to have come true: he, too, has found a loving home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is happier at Lachlan's croft than he thought he could be, until someone spitefully tells him that he is not liked or wanted there at all. Unwelcome, he takes to the road again. But without his four-legged friends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill he go through his whole life friendless and lonely?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Price is an acclaimed writer of books for the young. She has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian Fiction prize and her books have been translated into many languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout ten years before she started writing this book, Susan Price came across a quote, in Haldane's \u003ci\u003eDrove Roads of Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e, about drove dogs walking home by themselves at the end of a drove.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOnly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Price won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Drum\u003c\/i\u003e, the first in her Ghost World Sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe won The Guardian Fiction prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Sterkarm Handshake.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47301563252985,"sku":"9781523900640","price":10.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QTBwWWVzY2RybGxPdTZySktmZFZNUT09.webp?v=1769267736","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-drovers-dogs-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}