Treacle Walker
by Alan Garner (HarperCollins, 2021)
audiobook read by Robert Powell (Fourth Estate, 2021)
A slim, much-hyped novel, marketed as adult fantasy and shortlisted for the Booker Prize but actually an untethered middle-grade story where Garner’s personified childhood memories have a fever dream and repeatedly call a rag-and-bone man ‘daft’ (Garner’s pot calling Garner’s kettle black).