A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
''Sturdy advice, delivered with humour and the occasional splinter'' Guardian
-Gorgeous . . . contains fascinating insights about working with your hands, the nature of talent, and how to create a meaningful life- A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler
-Exquisite, purposeful, absorbing . . . a book with much to teach us all- Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies
-People think I-m a genius because I remember my high school math-
When Mark Ellison left high school, no one thought he would go anywhere. A self-proclaimed -serial dropout-, Mark spent his young adult years taking work where he found it. Who would have thought that forty years later he would be regarded as a great carpenter, making a living out of building homes for the rich and famous?
Full of warmth, wisdom and irreverent humour, this is the story of what carpentry can teach us about t
