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He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches. When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. The immediate inspiration for the novel came through conversations between Garner and the scientist Bob Cywinski about the nature of time and a historical figure known as Treacle Walker, a Huddersfield tramp who could heal ‘all things save jealousy’.Description for Weirdstone of Brisingamen Paperback.
Here, his vision is slimmed down to a sparse yet masterful 150 pages: this is a mesmerising folktale where every word counts. In Treacle Walker, Garner, now eighty-seven, continues to give expression to a lifelong obsession with myth and its curative effects. His world is charged with magic and coloured by both Jungian thought and British prehistory.
Garner often speaks about the alienation he felt after his grammar school education severed him from his family roots and how his writing is a way of knitting himself back together.
Those themes are most noticeable in his last two books: Boneland, the third of the Weirdstone trilogy, published fifty years after the first, and Where Shall We Run To?, a memoir of growing up in Alderley Edge during the Second World War. His first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, lodged itself strangely in the minds of the children who read it, and although Garner has since dismissed it as a ‘bad book’, it introduced themes that have never left his line of sight. These have made him a much-loved and respected voice in modern literature. A lan Garner is best known for the fantasy novels he wrote in the 1960s, which drew on the oral traditions and enchanted landscapes of the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge.
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