Scribner
November 2023
On Sale: November 14, 2023
Featuring: Joseph Coppock; Treacle Walker
160 pages ISBN: 1668025515 EAN: 9781668025512 Kindle: B0BKLTXZY2 Hardcover / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.
An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds’ eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination.
Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves.
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