[HPFGU-OTChatter] Alan Garner

[Michelle Apostolides]

>
> It was written in 1967, which doesn't seem *that* long ago (okay 34
> years...but I was born in 1961 and I never spoke like that).

Ah,but if they were written about at that time, they would have been
born in the 50's and the adults even earlier - hence the different
language !

> > Never read any of his other stuff strangely enough......
>
> The other Garner book that sticks in my mind is "The Weirdstone of
> Brisingamen," which we read at primary school.  I can't remember the
> remotest thing about it, apart from a sense that it fascinated me.
I'll
> have to rediscover that too.
Hmm.... perhaps we'll end up creating an Alan Garner list too ?

Michelle