Treacle Walker

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Title: Treacle Walker Author: Alan Garner ISBN: 9781668025512 Publisher: Scribner Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Number of Pages: 160 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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. Show more