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Alan Garner: ‘A sense of otherness that goes right back’

Posted on October 11, 2010September 5, 2018 by Elle - Reader of Books

On the 50th anniversary of his perennially popular Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner talks about how he ‘walked backwards’ into writing and the inspiration he draws from his native Cheshire

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