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Oct 17, 2022 · I mean that in a literal sense: a fable, a wonder-tale, one of the best of its kind – Erica Wagner. And yet as abstract as it is at times, Treacle Walker also simultaneously feels rooted in the...
- Laura Venning
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.
Garner was the first in his family to have a formal education: ‘My family were excited – “Alan’s going to get an education” – but I realised later that it was almost like a three-dimensional...
Jul 26, 2022 · However, he gave the young Garner an education which money couldn’t buy, and tutored him in the ways and stories of The Edge. In his mid-fifties, Garner was diagnosed as bipolar.
Dec 3, 2021 · For Truth in William Langland’s Piers Plowman, “love is triacle of Heaven”, healing all things. And so, too, Treacle Walker, the title protagonist of Alan Garner’s allusive new fable, can heal “all things. Save jealousy. Which none can”. Garner’s story is short but profound.
In this playful, moving and evocative fable, set once again in his beloved Cheshire, the masterly Alan Garner delivers both a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and a profound exploration of the fluidity of time.
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Garner's first fully mature work is The Owl Service (1967), in which a bitter Welsh legend re-enacts itself among modern children, faced with fully adult problems of love, jealousy and death; this novel won the Carnegie Medal, and was televised as The Owl Service (1969-1970 8 episodes).
