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Andi ChorleyThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley is a children's fantasy novel by English author Alan Garner...The story, which took the local legend of The Wizard of the Edge as a partial basis for the novel's plot, was influenced by the folklore and landscape of neighbouring Alderley Edge where he had grown up - Wikipedia
I read this book at least twice as a child and young teenager, and it took too long to return to it. Truly magical and I now realise how influential it was on me, instilling a love of the British countryside, the place names thereof, and Northern European mythology. I do love Lord of the Rings and so forth, but this and Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series are set in a real landscape that we can visit. I look forward to re-reading or reading for the first time the rest of Garner's oeuvre.
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