STONE BOOK QUARTET (PB)

Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester. Through four interconnected fables – The Stone Book, Granny Reardun, The Aimer gates, and Tom Fobble’s Day – this classic work of rural magic realism covers over a century of history in Northern England, spanning from the mid-19th century to the aftermath of World War I. They evoke a world of mutual respect where smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, labourers and artisans all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements, and the land.