{"product_id":"9780008478155","title":"Treacle Walker: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021","description":"\u003ch2\u003e‘Playful, moving and wholly remarkable’ \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e‘A small miracle’ \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e‘Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page’ \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds’ eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, \u003cem\u003eTreacle Walker\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner’s] best work’ \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘Spare and allusive… luminous and understated’ Rowan Williams, \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e‘Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple’ Carolyne Larrington, \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/em\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR • A \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e • \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis short, literary piece by Garner takes us through the rural life of Joseph Coppock and his intriguing friendship with Treacle Walker. The biographical elements and the exploration of family dynamics make it a top pick for avid readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Erica Wagner (The VOCAL+ Fiction Awards Anthology), Susanna Clarke (The Wood at Midwinter), Joan Aiken (The Girl from Paris), Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness), and Madeleine L'Engle (Ilsa).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Garner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46888987918485,"sku":"9780008478155","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008478155_303a5367-25af-4e95-886b-ceba97754118.jpg?v=1776888371","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008478155","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}