Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman who, having been sentenced and transported to Australia, escaped to live among the Aborigines for thirty years.
Alan Garner was born in Congleton, Cheshire, in 1934 and grew up in Alderly Edge, where his father's family had lived for more than three hundred years. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Magdelen College, Oxford, after which he began writing his first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, at the age of twenty-two. He is renowned as one of Britain's outstanding writers for young adults and has won many prizes for his writing. In 2001 he was awarded the OBE for services to literature.
A work of terrible beauty
*Observer*
A remarkable feat of literary imagination
*Sunday Times*
Strandloper's vision is cosmic and as elusive as a rainbow... The
ending gathers the words into a powerful cry for wisdom that
recognises the ineffable
*Sydney Morning Herald*
A novel as uncompromising and bright as anything this talented
author has ever produced
*Daily Telegraph*
I know of little in recent fiction more moving than the final
section of this novel... Garner's ambitious subject is matched by
an astounding mastery of technique
*New Statesman*
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