'Playful moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of
craft resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph 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. 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 TLS A NEW STATESMAN BOOK
OF THE YEAR ¿ A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR ¿ A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021
