A modern adaptation of a late 19th-century tale from the borderlands between Scotland and England traces the experiences of a boy caught in the middle of a rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters. Adapted by the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Break It Down. Simultaneous eBook. On the border of Scotland and England beginning in the early 1880s, two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep--a battle which must end in death.
