![]() There's an interview with Garner and a lecture at the Oxford literary festival in March, an exhibition of the author's works in Chester this autumn, and most joyfully, a weekend festival in October in Alderley Edge where, among guided walks and lectures and readings and commemorative badges, there will even be a medieval fair.Ĭount me in: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a book that deserves to be celebrated, along with the rest of Garner's dark, unforgettable children's books: The Weirdstone's sequel The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service and Elidor. But I'm reminded of my childhood adoration of Garner by the startling news that it is 50 years – 50 years! – since he published The Weirdstone, his first novel, and the occasion is being marked with events throughout this year. Unsurprisingly, nothing happened, and we returned home. ![]() ![]() I wanted the svart-alfar to attack me, Cadellin to rescue me, and the still, anticipatory atmosphere of those dimly lit woods almost convinced me they might. ![]() ![]() We went to an autumnal wedding near Alderley Edge when I was 10, and I remember so clearly the walk we went on the next day: cold and gloomy and grey though it was, I scurried off by myself to lean against a rock and try, desperately to imagine myself into the world of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. ![]()
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