Treacle Walker

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.