A way of life for the exceptional few

Title: The Drover’s Daughter

Author: Patsy Kemp

Publisher: Selfpublished Price: $30.00

By Samantha Elley

While the droving lifestyle or industry is still in practice today, it is not as proli c as it was back in the early and mid 20th century.

e practice of moving thousands of head of livestock, whether it be sheep or cattle across country, was an immense task to undertake.

Nowadays they are mainly trucked across the vast expanses of Australia to get to their destination.

Add to this droving practice, the complexity of taking your family of seven children along for the ride, and you have a collection of stories about a lifestyle few Australians would understand.

Patsy Kemp was the middle child of Mick and Beryl Kemp and she has written her story of the life of a drover’s child on