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Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755.

The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead.

This enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, is a mystery that lives on in the hill farms today.

John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his ancient community. In this visionary tale, John brings ideas as well as gifts, which have come, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. John Turner's death in the eighteenth century leaves an emotional charge which, in the twenty-first century, Ian and Sal find affects their relationship, challenging the perceptions they have of themselves and of each other. Thursbitch is rooted in a verifiable place. It is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch.

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"Eerie and immaculately written" (Olivia Laing Observer)

"A rare flight of the imagination - and an unforgettable book" (Metro)

"The land does indeed seem alive thanks to Garner's acute sense of place and his delight in language...This novel crackles with linguistic life" (Sunday Times)

"Garner's book is only a slim volume, yet in the ideas and possibilities it suggests, it punches well above its weight" (Sunday Herald)

"The experience of reading Thursbitch is so overwhelming that, after closing the book, it remains more real than anything around one... His art reaches out from the society of ancestors... with trepidation undoubtedly but also with a transforming, youthful hope" (Independent)
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  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0099459361
  • ISBN 13 9780099459361
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages176
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