Granny Reardun — Alan Garner

Title: Granny Reardun — Alan Garner

Author: Alan Garner

Publisher: Fontana Lions / William Collins Sons & Co Ltd

Format: Paperback

Edition: Fontana Lions edition, first published in Great Britain 1977; first published in Fontana Lions 1979

ISBN: 0006716024 / 9780006716020

Condition: Second-hand. Light age toning to pages, minor shelf wear, rubbing to cover and edges, and some marks consistent with age. Binding appears intact from photos. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Granny Reardun is a short illustrated novel by Alan Garner, with illustrations by Michael Foreman. The story follows Joseph on his last school day, as he watches his grandfather working as a stonemason and begins to understand that he must choose a different path if he is to shape his own life.

This is one of the four short novels that make up The Stone Book Quartet, a sequence rooted in family, memory, craft, landscape and working-class history. It is a quiet but powerful piece of writing, suited to readers interested in Alan Garner, British children’s literature, folk memory, rural life and literary fiction for younger readers.