Treacle Walker

by Alan Garner

4th August, 2022

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'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian

'A small miracle' New Statesman

'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph

An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them.

A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.

'All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner's] best work' Observer

'Spare and allusive… luminous and understated' Rowan Williams, New Statesman

'Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple' Carolyne Larrington, TLS

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021

Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books.

His fourth book, 'The Owl Service' brought Alan Garner to everyone's attention. It won two important literary prizes - The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal - and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.

Details & Specs

Author: Alan Garner

Publisher: 4th Estate

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780008477806

Publication Date: 4th August, 2022

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm

Availability: Available, usually dispatched within 4 days

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