Treacle Walker - Alan Garner
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Fantasy
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021, A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021, 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 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 Josephs pyjamas and a lambs 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., Length: 1 hr and 48 mins Release date: 10-28-21
