Calum's Road, Paperback/Roger Hutchinson

Calum MacLeod, at 56, found himself the last man left on the northern tip of the island of Raasey. This is the story of how he constructed an 'impossible' road that would link his dying community with the rest of the island, a quest which took over 20 years. Over 25,000 copies were sold in hardback, and it was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2007. '...wonderful, elegant and serious,' }The Telegraph{