{"product_id":"9780008477806","title":"Treacle Walker","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Garner, Alan \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 August 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 160 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 21 | 148g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayful, moving and wholly remarkable Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A small miracle New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An 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\u003e A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garners] best work Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Spare and allusive luminous and understated Rowan Williams, New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple Carolyne Larrington, TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR  A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR  A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43319728308464,"sku":"9780008477806","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780008477806.jpg?v=1713453881","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.pro\/products\/9780008477806","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}