Treacle Walker
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An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birdsâ 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.
âAll the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garnerâs] best workâ Observer
âSpare and allusive... luminous and understatedâ Rowan Williams, New Statesman
âCryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simpleâ Carolyne Larrington, TLS
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR âĸ A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR âĸ A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021
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Alan Garner was born in Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. He was awarded the OBE in 2001, for his services to literature.
