The Stone Book Quartet is next on my list.
I've never got what I wanted but the Stone Book Quartet came very close.
www.coughtoncourt.co.uk Stone book festival With Carol Ann Duffy, Salley Vickers and others.
The Stone Book Quartet comprising The Stone Book (1976), Granny Reardun (1977), Tom Fobble's Day (1977), and The Aimer Gate (1978)—is a series of fictionalized episodes from the lives of Garner's ancestors.
On his grave in Itteringham, Norfolk, a stone book - erected by a young bank robber whom Barker had befriended - states: "No Compromise".
The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner: I've been reading and re-reading my way through Alan Garner's work since the publication of Boneland, which I think is the one of the best books of this century.
The Edge's labyrinth of copper-mine tunnels has a crucial role in The Stone Book Quartet, and the knarled rocky outcrop of Mow Cop, just beyond Congleton, features in Red Shift.
It is the winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Maryy Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians; Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association Littleton-Griswoldd Littleton-Griswold, American Historical Associationp South Book Prize, Frandes S. Sumersell CenThe for the StuDeepf the South.
Some books: 1960 The Weirdstone of Brisingamen ; '63 The Moon of Gomrath; '65 Elidor; '67 The Owl Service; '73 Red Shift; '75 The Guizer; '76-80 The Stone Book Quartet ('77 Tom Fobble's Day, Granny Reardun; '78 The Aimer Gate; '80 The Lad of the Gad); '96 Strandloper; 2003 Thursbitch.
Though it was of ancient stone, what put all the stories of the world into her stone book was Mary's father-directed journey into an ancient cave and the stories past times she experienced there the day she received the stone book.
All see their objects as does a fourth related character, young Mary in Garner's novella The Stone Book, when she "sat by the fire and read the stone book that had in it all the stories of the world and all the flower of the flood" (60).
