Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

?_~Playful, moving and wholly remarkable?_T Guardian ?_~A small miracle?_T New Statesman ?_~Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page?_T 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?_T 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?_Ts] best work?_T Observer ?_~Spare and allusive?_? luminous and understated?_T Rowan Williams, New Statesman ?_~Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple?_T Carolyne Larrington, TLS A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ?_? A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR ?_? A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021
Binding: Paperback / softback