In August 1956 a young shepherd his wife two-year-old daughter & ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them They were bound for a tiny remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years Set against the awesome splendour of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery Iain R Thomson's classic book provides a sensitive richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the seasons & recreates the events that shaped the family's life in Glen Strathfarrar before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project