The New Statesman
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Alan Garner began The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in 1957 , and published Treacle Walker in 2021 .
Garner, who has just turned 90 , himself comes from a long line of artisans, including handloom weavers, and is blessed with a prodigious memory.
Powsels and Thrums centres on place as does Garner ’s entire creative career.
Is it possible for a globalised world to produce another writer like Alan Garner ? Garner admits that “charges of parochialism, cramped-mindedness, obsession, humbug” could be laid against him.
But there may not be another Alan Garner if children cannot ramble around their home streets and hills.
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