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Byline: VICTORIA MOORE

Thursbitch

by Alan Garner

(Vintage, [pounds sterling]6.99)

IN 1755 the frozen body of a packman and shaman, Jack Turner, is found sitting in the Pennine snow. 'His skin crackled yellow, and ice clad his beard.' The stones around him are covered with a film of honey.

Beside him is a single print of a woman's shoe.

More than two centuries later, Sally and Ian find themselves drawn to the same ridges and valleys. She is a geologist dying from a degenerative brain disease, unable to remember where she has just walked, but who knows the valleys and hills through her rigorously analytical eyes. Ian ...

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