[HPFGU-OTChatter] Alan Garner

[Michelle Apostolides]

>
> I've just finished reading another 'juvenile lit' book based on an old
> legend: "The Owl Service" by Alan Garner.  The author describes this
as a
> ghost story and recounts some rather scary real life parallels with
the
> legend, that led him to write it.  It was a touch difficult to read in
> places, where the characters either speak in rather upper class 'not
in
> front of the servants' style or in Welsh English (or a transcription
> thereof).  The author also uses some strange devices, creating a
bizarre
> tone, such as describing the same period of time from different
characters'
> POV in successive chapters and seemingly missing out whole scenes that
would
> have been quite informative.  It's awkwardly written, but strangely
poetic.

I think you'll find that the book was written quite a long time ago. I
read it when I was about fourteen for English.  I have always loved
reading but tended to baulk at the ( in my opinion ) very boring choices
of set book at school. Until this. Oh, and A Traveller in Time !

Anyway, back to The Owl Service. There was a TV dramatisation in the
seventies that was repeated on Sunday mornings many years ago. Not much
good though.

Never read any of his other stuff strangely enough......

Michelle