Fun little book, with serious dark humor. This tells the story of 3 traveling fence installers, who get sent from Scotland to England to put up a high tension fence. While there, they stay in a "caravan" - a camper, get on each others nerves and hit the local pub. They have a few run ins with the locals and butt heads with the fence company owner (their boss). And that's about it.

Told by the "foreman" of this happy little group, who tries to make sense of the lugs that he has working for him. They do battle with a ridiculous boss figure and try to survive long rainy days in the field.

For a book that doesn't cover much ground, it is eminently readable and quite funny. I don't think any of them end the job with more money in their pocket than what they started with - probably less really. But I enjoyed meeting the three of them, and the deadpan narration was the best. Probably a 3.5 star book, but I'll bump it to 4 for being so unexpected.