Selective Luddism
Adam Mars-Jones: On Alan Garner, 10 July 2025
Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life
by Alan Garner.
Fourth Estate, 229 pp., £14.99, October 2024,978 0 00 872521 1 Show More
by Alan Garner.
Fourth Estate, 229 pp., £14.99, October 2024,
“... shows that I registered its great difference from the two earlier books. Not having read C.S. Lewis, I didn’t realise that he, rather than Tolkien, was now providing Garner with a template. The similarities aren’t disguised: four siblings find a portal to an imperilled magical kingdom, whose balance they must restore. The differences, which emerge ... ”