Interviewed today on [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j6xxz ]Radio 4[/url], 11.30 am. Great bloke.
[i]The Owl Service[/i] - splendid book.
****ing terrifying book you mean. Not sure I ever managed to finish it. Maybe I'll give it another go.The Owl Service - splendid book.
Fab writer.
[i]Elidor[/i] was really scary too. You could go to the big scrolling map in Piccadilly and look for Thursday St yourself 🙂 I still get goosebumps thinking of the 2 shadows triangulating in the dark!
He put me off potholing for life! (Wierdstone of Brisingamen)
[i]Not sure I ever managed to finish it[/i]
Ha - you should. Fantastic story, had a profound influence on me as a kid.
[i]"Always it is owls..."[/i]
Noteeth I will dig out a copy and try again!
Whenever we go past Feizor in the Dales I always think of Alan Garner, it ought to be a place name in one of his books.
I was brought up 2 miles from his house, and very close to Alderley Edge.
Fantastic stuff, all of it 🙂