-Playful, moving and wholly remarkable- Guardian-A small miracle- New Statesman-Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page- TelegraphAn 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.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.-All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner-s] best work- Observer-Spare and allusive- luminous and understated- Rowan Williams, New Statesman-Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple- Carolyne Larrington, TLSA NEW STATESMA
