However, this is a novel for all the children who loved ‘The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen’ but who have now grown up.’ Four out of Five stars. ”'Boneland hooks into the mind, haunting, provoking…This novel functions like a dream, containing hints at insights that, once we wake, we yearn to grasp again” - Telegraph It feels like a capstone to a career that has taken him, as a writer, to remarkable places, and returned him to the same place he started, to the landscape of Alderley Edge and to the sleepers under the hill” - The Times of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in the same slot. Susan possesses a small tear-shaped jewel held in a bracelet. The novel is set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, and tells the story of two children, Colin and Susan, who are staying with some old friends of their mother's while their parents are overseas. Boneland is the strangest, but also the strongest of Garner’s books. Julian Simpson's Bad Memories for Radio 4's The Friday Play slot involved the macabre. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a children's fantasy novel by English author Alan Garner, first published in 1960. ”'He deploys short, accurate words better than anyone else writing in English today, and he makes it look simple. Garner predates the cross over phenomenon by decades, but he has never been just a children’s writer: he’s far richer, odder and deeper than that” - Guardian ”'From Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, adults have been enthusiastically been reading children’s books over recent years.
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