Dennis Carey
Dennis Carey was born in Bangor Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. His family moved to Coventry, England when he was very young and they were responsible enough to bring him with them. He now lives with his wife in Northamptonshire. For 30 years he taught, for a short while in Secondary Schools and more substantially in Further Education. When asked about writing he said “Every summer, when I was still at school, my mother would buy me a new fountain pen to start the school year. Examining each pen, I would wonder if this was going to be the pen I would write my first book with. Then someone invented laptop computers. My first book has now been written. No fountain pen involved.” The idea for The Ditcher comes from long-past discussions with his father, who drove one of the machines in Bangor Erris bog
