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Article: Paperbacks.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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