Treacle Walker

Name: Treacle Walker
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alan Garner
ISBN: 9781797164908

Author: Alan Garner

Narrator: Robert Powell

Unabridged: 1 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 11/14/2023

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Legends

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.

An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds’ eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination.

Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves.

About Alan Garner

Alan Garner is an English novelist, born in Cheshire in 1934. His childhood was spent in Alderley Edge, where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. His book The Owl Service won the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and was made into a TV series. It established itself as a contemporary classic and Garner as a writer of distinction. His novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the OBE in for his services to literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on January 06, 2023

Now shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. 5th in my longlist rankings (a ranking confirmed in a second read) and a book I would be delighted to see win. My Bookstagram rating, ranking, summary review and Book themed Golden Retriever photo is here: [URL not allowed] ‘What’s......more

Goodreads review by Meike on September 08, 2022

Now Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 I'm really torn about this one: It's not hard to see the literary merit of this enigmatic meditation on time, death, and the absurdity of life, but the text strongly relies on context that might not be available to many readers, and it requires an interest i......more

Goodreads review by Vit on June 27, 2024

I don’t know if Treacle Walker is for children or grownups but the tale grabbed hold of me at once. A boy having a lazy eye disorder meets a mysterious rag-and-bone man who possesses wondrous abilities… There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 27, 2024

'Treacle Walker?' said Thin Amren, 'Treacle Walker. Me know that pickthank psychopomp? I know him, so I do. I know him. Him with his pots for rags and his bag and his bone and his doddering nag and nookshotten cart and catchpenny oddments. Treacle Walker? I’d not trust that one’s arse with a fart.’ T......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn Marie on September 06, 2023

I’m sorry, but what did I just read?......more

Quotes

"British actor Robert Powell narrates the magical story of an English boy, Joe Coppook, who encounters strange folkloric characters who confound him as he wrestles with the nature of time and of good and evil. Powell shows his theatrical skills in his portrayals. Whimsical characters—such as the bog man, the heroes and villains from a 1940s comic book, the rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker, and, of course, Joe—are all expertly brought to life."