One of the things missed during ACHUKA’s month-long break in August was this significant interview with Alan Garner in The Observer….
When you finished Boneland, the final instalment in the trilogy that began with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, you said it would be your last book. How did you come to write Where Shall We Run To?
I can’t stop writing. It’s not something I physically enjoy, but I can’t switch off the head. There was something else, something I’d lived with all my life – the fear that I wouldn’t live to finish a given piece. Having finished Boneland at the age of 77, with no idea in front of me whatever, I thought – that’s it. And then an idea started to stir. Now, given that it takes me between five and nine years to write a novel, the joke runs a bit sour when you’re in your early 80s.
For the full interview, if you all missed it at the time:
>>>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/04/alan-garner-interview-i-just-let-the-voice-settle-and-listened-memoir-where-shall-we-run-to
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