The Owl Service - Softcover

Garner, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345290445 ISBN 13: 9780345290441

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1981

Synopsis

Gwen discovers, in the attic, a plate with an abstract design on it that can be traced into an owl, an owl that disappears when no one is looking.

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Review:

“Alan Garner’s fiction is something special. Garner’s fantasies were smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth.”― Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline

“Alan Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful. His work is where human emotion and mythic resonance, sexuality and geology, modernity and memory and craftsmanship meet and cross-fertilise. Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names. But that’s the way with us: our greatest prophets go unnoticed by the politicians and the owners of media empires. I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration.”― Philip Pullman

ON WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN: “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the most important books in children’s fantasy. It has been an enormous inspiration to me and countless other writers, and is as enjoyable and fascinating now as it was when I first read it, wide-eyed and mesmerised, at the age of ten.”― Garth Nix

From the Back Cover:

'Something was stirring in the valley, something powerful and old. Something which had no place in the rational modern world...'

Gwyn heard noise behind him, and he turned. A lump of pebble-dash had come off the wall, and another fell, and in their place on the wall two eyes were watching him.

The hot summer days were filled with an oppressiveness that the heat alone could not explain. Alison, Gwyn and Roger could feel it, but only Huw could really understand it. And as the inevitable confrontations between present and past drew nearer, Gwyn alone seemed strong enough to stall the disaster that hung over them all.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0345290445
• ISBN 13: 9780345290441
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback