Praise for Where Shall We Run To:
In old age childhood memories become vivid again and its the present that disappears behind a confusion of vivid fragments. In this book, Garner, now old, has faced that pattern and in place of the bewildering, wonky memory of old age, produced something precise and fresh as flowers. He has become as were told we must as a little child. Hes also produced one of the best things hes ever written. Frank Cotterell-Boyce, New Statesman
Its encounters are vivid and immediate, but it is also an examination of class and change in the England of those years. Erica Wagner, Financial Times
Every street, every house, every carved stone, mysterious well, dark pond and perilously steep cliff-edge is remembered and described, as Garner roams through it, with a succession of companions. Garners detailed recall of so many characters and events is extraordinary Sue Gaisford, The Tablet
In this slight but charming memoir about his wartime childhood in Alderley Edge, Garner has pulled off the same trick making the Cheshire landscape feel fresh, while bringing a new perspective to a tried and tested literary form..and Oh, what language Ben Lawrence, Sunday Telegraph
This is a book very much about reading and writing, about the marks that we use to give life meaning, whether they are a tramps chalk-mark on a wall or the comics and Arthur Mees The Childrens Encyclopaedia that allow young Alan to get past block capitals and closer to Real Writing. It is also a book written without a single scrap of hindsight, or rationalisation of the past. This, then, is a writers memoir Brian Morton, Herald
Praise for Alan Garner:
I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration Philip Pullman
