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Strandloper

By: Alan Garner

Hardback

Publisher: Harvill Press 1996

Condition: Excellent: dust-jacket good

Novel,First Edition

ISBN: 1860461603

Based on the true story of William Buckley, a bricklayer, the novel begins in the rural Cheshire of the 1790s as William and Het are making ready for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack - an ancient fertility figure, face blackened with charcoal and bedecked with boughs of oak - and Het is to be his Teaser.

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