Treacle Walker
Ratings8
Average rating3.3
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Ratings8
Average rating3.3
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds’ eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination. Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves.
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I didn't understand it, but the audio book was a lovely listen, rather like a fairy tale, very relaxing.
The fiction of Alan Garner is deeply rooted in the English soil, in folklore, in community, in the past and the timeless. Treacle Walker is a culmination of sorts of all these themes.
Young Joe Coppock is suffering with a lazy eye and, by the look of it, general ill health, when he is visited by rag and bone collector Treacle Walker. A friendship is formed and Joe is introduced to a world far more strange and wonderful than the one he knows.
A brilliant fusion of myth and folk take Alan Garner proves once again why he one of the greatest living writers in the English language. It's a difficult book to describe without giving away much of the magic. So if you've read Garner before, you're in for a treat. It you haven't....you're in for a treat!
Simply a great book by a great author. Recommended.
