Although not born to a gypsy family, the author spent two decades living off-grid, mostly under canvas. For fifteen of those years, the family were completely horse-drawn, travelling the highways and by-ways of Britain and Ireland.
In 1995, a modest inheritance enabled them to buy a patch of land literally ‘at the end of the road’ in County Cork. Over the ensuing years this has become something of a ‘tribal homeland’ for their six adult children (four with partners) and six grandchildren.
