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1. • • Cracks form between past and present as young Joseph Coppock is visited by ancient presences, and becomes enveloped in a parallel mirror-world where he is literally faced with himself. There is no linear time here: past, present and future move in a circle with no clear resolution.
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   What books did Alan Garner write?

   • He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold (1979), Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales (1984) and A Bag of Moonshine (1986).

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   What did Robert Garner do after a day cutting stone?

   • After a day cutting stone, which is highly skilled work, my great-great-grandfather Robert Garner would lie on Alderley Edge and (in his words, which have come down to me) compose music while ‘listening to the zephyrs in the trees: always in the minor key’.

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   What is Alan Garner best known for?

   • Alan Garner's most beloved and enduring novel is The Owl Service. In a complex, haunting story of burgeoning sexuality, violence and folk tales retold, three teenagers are thrown together in a remote manor house in Wales, in the shadow of a mountain.

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   Where did Alan Garner grow up?

   • Garner grew up in Alderley Edge, a Cheshire village at the base of a steep escarpment of red sandstone, often known as The Edge (Credit: Alamy) "She wants to be flowers but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting." Alan Garner's most beloved and enduring novel is The Owl Service.

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   How old was garner when he found a cottage in Blackden?

   • Aged 22, Garner was out cycling when he came across a hand-painted sign announcing that an agricultural cottage in Toad Hall – a late medieval building situated in Blackden, seven miles from Alderley Edge – was on sale for £510.

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   Is Jane Austen 'observational' or 'visionary'?

   • And one way of doing that is what I would call the ‘observational’, which is concerned with the whole of human existence, its joys, its sorrows, its problems. And so you get Jane Austen. The other way is not observational but visionary, and that’s far closer to dreaming.

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3. www.spectator.co.uk › article › the-magic-ofThe magic of carefully crafted words | The Spectator

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   The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Early one morning, Alan Garner goes to let the hens out. The hens live in a hutch in the garden of Toad Hall in Blackden, Cheshire, a medieval dwelling which...

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   Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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   Aug 10, 2021 · It strikes me you have a number of shared interests – for example, a fascination with time past and present and the way they blend and blur into each other. That links back consciously to my bedridden childhood.

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   Garner’s father lived and died within a mile of where he was born: a seeming aberration at the mobile, uprooted end of the 20th century. It is no coincidence that the work of Garner, Hughes and Ackroyd all acknowledges that the border between past and present, this world and the other, is permeable and unstable.

7. www.newstatesman.com › culture › historyAlan Garner’s memoir is one of the best things he’s ever written

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   Aug 15, 2018 · In old age childhood memories become vivid again and it’s the present that disappears behind a confusion of vivid fragments. In this book, Garner, now old, has faced that pattern and in place of the bewildering, wonky memory of old age, produced something precise and fresh as flowers.

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   Apr 2, 2015 · How does creativity work? I’ll try to explain, by using moments that have shaped me beyond their moment: events that became linked in the unconscious; just as the newspaper, the graffito, Mow Cop and Barthomley were warp and weft on a loom – a loom of story.