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Ian R. Bruce

50 years on from reading The Owl Service

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2022

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Garner prefaces the book with a quote from the quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli on the mystery of time, and this short novel is just as bewildering. A boy meets a rag and bone man and they… well, it’s not altogether clear what they do. Adventures ensue, and the conventional world fades away.

The spare writing can be wonderfully evocative and the plot meandering. It’s been over 50 years since I read The Owl Service as a boy not much older than the hero of this book, and I enjoyed revisiting Garner’s world again. But be warned- this is not a straightforward story, and the opacity of the plot can be frustrating.

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Mr Andy Gallacher

Magically confusing…

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2022

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If I hadn’t grown up in the British countryside half the dialogue would have flown over my head. Its short on description and exposition, but that’s what makes it unique. I read the book in one sitting and placed it down feeling that magic still exists.

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C. W. Sullivan III

Excellent Condition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2022

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The book, Treacle Walker, arrived in new condition as advertised and arrived a bit earlier than projected. Great condition; great service.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2022

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Randy Stewart

A Nonsensical Novella

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2022

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Some people will love this book, some people will get it, I do not. I did not like this book. The title of this review sums up this book.

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Constantine

What?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2022

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Genre: Literary Fiction + Fantasy

What was that? I honestly did not understand this novella. I don’t know what is the purpose of its story at all. It started as a charming fantasy, but then it kept going on and on with no goal or particular direction. It ended up going nowhere. This was supposed to be based on English folklore, but I couldn’t compare it with any I know.

All I got from the story is that Treacle Walker is a man who meets a young man called Joe. The two make a trade. Joe ends up with a donkey stone, and then he uses this stone and more nonsense happens. The best thing about this book is that it was short, so it did not require much time invested in it. I don’t think I would have finished it if it was an entire novel. Not only the story, but I also don’t even understand the cover! What is that supposed to be on the cover? A pig? A chicken?

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joani

Disappointed. I expect to be shot down in flames for this review!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2022

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I have read other books by Alan Garner, after being enchanted by Elidor as a child. I admit I have not read all of his works, but the high praise heaped by reviewers on this one lured me into buying it. Probably a mistake.
First of all it's a very quick read - 30 minutes to an hour at most.
There are a lot of ancient words, mostly references from old folklore and to things from a little known play written and performed years ago. I only know this because I was googling them as I read. (Perhaps some explanatory footnotes might have helped). No doubt very highly educated and well read readers won't need to google, as they will understand and appreciate the references, and get the most out of it. (Which probably explains the glowing reviews).
But for me, it felt like I was being held at arm's length by the author. I had the feeling that there was a deeper meaning to the book, but my hope, as I read, of it being revealed or dawning on me were in vain.
There wasn't much of a story, and what with the opaque references and language, I couldn't engage with this book. I finished it with a feeling of 'Is that it?'
I might read it again, in case I missed something first time round, but right now I am very disappointed by it.

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Peter Hemsworth

Magically magnificent...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 28, 2021

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I was slow coming to Alan Garner, as an adult training to be a teacher. I was hooked and bowled over from the start.
I was lucky to be able to enjoy some of these books with my classes at a middle school. I hope they have not forgotten Alderley Edge or The Owl Service. I will never forget my first reading of Red Shift on a train from Leeds to Wareham or the second reading when we got there!

Treacle Walker is a strange tale and a compelling one. If you are a Garner fan it should be right up your street. It would make an excellent introduction to his books, full of surprises, beautifully written and with a beating heart.

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E Griffin

Up with Garner’s best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 29, 2021

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Joe meets a man – Treacle Walker – who offers him a choice. A rich, deep, deceptively slight blend of folklore, magic, comics, and dreaming. Unlike anything being written by anyone else, this is a fantastic story told with uncompromising simplicity, and up with Garner’s best.

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Spruce Goose

Life, death, dreaming and reality. Incomprehensible.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 24, 2021

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I liked Garner’s older books. This was mystifying.
Is Joe alive? Dead? Unborn? Has he acquired the Sight by choosing the one magic artefact in Treacle’s bag? Why does the marsh dweller need to be fettered?
Alan Garner is so steeped in the folklore of Britain that he can sound the many chimes of recognisable fairy elements, such as white-stoning the threshold so that magical creatures must ask to enter. The past and the present were linked by the idea of a boy’s comic from which the characters spring into existence in the real world. The Walker is recognisable as a magical guide who helps humans achieve their destined role. Joe seems to gain complete understanding at the end of his allotted task to pin down Thin the water ? spirit.
Apart from these feeble insights (are they true?) I am completely clueless as to the plot, meanings and value to the reader of this book.

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Dwight Braxton

A strange and compelling little novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 24, 2022

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I hadn't read anything bu Alan Garner previously, but felt compelled to do so when Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2022 - particularly as Mr Garner celebrates this 88th birthday on the evening of the awards ceremony (is this a portent for his success?). This is a very short little book, 152 pages of sparsely-separated prose with lots of blank pages between chapters, meaning that it can be easily read in an hour or 90 minutes. Full of folklore and archaic words like "mirligoes" and "hurlolomperjobs", with bits of Latin thrown in, Garner's style reminds me variously of Joyce, Homer (the formulaic descriptions of the passing train, for example, akin to an oral storytelling tradition), and English folk tales like that of Grendel. It's a magical world he creates, and by the end of the novel I can't say that I was any the wiser about what had actually happened - but in reading Treacle Walker I felt that I was reading a great piece of literature that will be analysed and talked about for years to come. I look forward to reading it again, and also to reading some of the other reviews that will undoubtedly help me to peel back the layers of meaning and reveal hidden themes.

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