The Owl Service Summary
Alan Garner

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The Owl Service Summary

The Owl Service, by Alan Garner is a young adult's/children's fantasy story set in seventies Britain, in the country of Wales and features the tumultuous friendship of three children Alison, Roger and Gwyn as they are forced to spend a summer in a mysterious isolated valley. During their stay we discover that ancient secrets are buried not only in the Valley but also in the past's of each of the...

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Alan Garner Biographies (3)

Alan Garner

4,261 words, approx. 15 pages

When Alan Garner was a child, he almost died three times. A very sickly boy, he suffered variously from spinal and cerebral meningitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, and diphtheria, at times so ill that he cou... Read more

Alan Garner

6,745 words, approx. 23 pages

Alan Garner has become, through a relatively modest output, one of the most important writers for children since 1960. His work is carefully crafted, economic, and precise. His early works-- The Weird... Read more

Alan Garner

3,869 words, approx. 13 pages

In 1968 Alan Garner, defending his focus on the adolescent audience, asserted in "A Bit More Practice" that "This group of people is the most important of all, and selfishly, it makes the best audienc... Read more