2022/117: The Owl Service — Alan Garner [reread]

2022/117: The Owl Service — Alan Garner [reread]

“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” [p. 102]

In which elements of the Mabinogion are repeated, or are still happening, in a Welsh valley: three teenagers reenact the old story without realising, and the abrupt ending keeps the reader guessing as to how this iteration of the story might conclude.

Reread, after reaching Treacle Walker: I last read this more than twenty years ago, and as usual I'm surprised by what I remembered( Read more... )