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The stone book quartet

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A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists.

Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester.

Smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, labourers and artisans: they all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that has somehow, somewhere been lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore that lost world in simple, searching prose.

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Fourth Estate
0007380127 / 9780007380121
eBook (EPUB)
823.914
15/08/2013
England
English
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102 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 201929, Points 4.00, Book Level 4.00,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: London: William Collins, 1983. Contents: Contents: The stone book - Granny Reardun - The aimer gate - Tom Fobble's day.