Treacle Walker, page 6
The Words came, to his mouth, to his mind, from within and without and the dark and the light and the knowing. ‘Kosko gry! Kosko gry! Muk man kistur tute knaw!’
The pony started from the yard, legs and tail outstretched, head forward, long, through the gate, down the track, between Big Meadow, Barn Croft and Pool Field, over the brook.
It was midday. The sky shone. Noony rattled past, and her smoke curled about the valley.
‘Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!’
About the Author
Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his children’s fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. His fourth book, The Owl Service, won two important literary prizes—The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal—and was made into a TV series. It has established itself as a contemporary classic and Garner as a writer of great distinction. He was awarded the OBE in 2001 for his services to literature.
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FICTION
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The Moon of Gomrath
Elidor
The Owl Service
Red Shift
A Bag of Moonshine
The Lad of the Gad
The Stone Book Quartet
Strandloper
Thursbitch
Boneland
ESSAYS
The Voice that Thunders
MEMOIR
Where Shall We Run To?
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Alan Garner, Treacle Walker
