Alan Garner - Where Shall We Run To?

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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.'The war went. We sang in the playground, «Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions.» David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn’t take any notice of me.’In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as ‘a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.

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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher

Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher

4th Estate

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.4thEstate.co.uk

This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018

Copyright © Alan Garner 2018

Cover photograph provided by the author

Design by Jack Smyth

Alan Garner asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins..

Source ISBN: 9780008306007

Ebook Edition © August 2018 ISBN: 9780008305994

Version: 2019-02-14

Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher

For Tom

Epigraph Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher

Pancake Tuesday’s a very happy day.

If you don’t give us a holiday we’ll all run away.

Where shall we run to? Down Moss Lane.

Here comes Twiggy with his big fat cane!

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Title Page Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher

Copyright Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher 4th Estate An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thEstate.co.uk This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018 Copyright © Alan Garner 2018 Cover photograph provided by the author Design by Jack Smyth Alan Garner asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.. Source ISBN: 9780008306007 Ebook Edition © August 2018 ISBN: 9780008305994 Version: 2019-02-14

Dedication Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher For Tom

Epigraph Epigraph Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Bomb The Nettling of Harold Rocking Horse Monsall Porch Mrs E. Paminondas Mrs Finch’s Gatepost St Mary’s Vaccies Widdershins Bunty Bike Mr Noon Half-Chick DOWN MOSS LANE Bomb (1955) St Mary’s Vaccies (1974) The Nettling of Harold (2001) Also by Alan Garner About the Publisher Pancake Tuesday’s a very happy day. If you don’t give us a holiday we’ll all run away. Where shall we run to? Down Moss Lane. Here comes Twiggy with his big fat cane!

Bomb

The Nettling of Harold

Rocking Horse

Monsall

Porch

Mrs E. Paminondas

Mrs Finch’s Gatepost

St Mary’s Vaccies

Widdershins

Bunty

Bike

Mr Noon

Half-Chick

DOWN MOSS LANE

Bomb (1955)

St Mary’s Vaccies (1974)

The Nettling of Harold (2001)

Also by Alan Garner

About the Publisher

Bomb John and I were going up the Hough to pick watercress in Pott Brook and - фото 1

Bomb

John and I were going up the Hough to pick watercress in Pott Brook and to look at the anti-aircraft battery in Baguley’s fields.

DANGER. DON’T TOUCH.

The notice was on the board outside the police station on Heyes Lane. A red arrow pointed to pictures of a high-explosive shell, small bombs with fins, a hand grenade; and there were some harmless-looking things too. And underneath was printed:

IF YOU FIND ONE OF THESE, TELL TEACHER OR A POLICEMAN.

DO NOT TOUCH IT, EVEN WITH A STICK.

AND DO NOT THROW STONES AT IT.

Pott Brook goes under Hough Lane, and we jumped from the bridge into the field and began to look for caddis fly larvae in the water.

Caddis larvae build tubes from grit and bits of leaf and twig bark to protect - фото 2

Caddis larvae build tubes from grit and bits of leaf and twig bark to protect their bodies, with only the head and legs poking out. They showed the water was clean. If there were no caddis flies we didn’t pick the cress.

It started to rain.

We walked along the bank to where the cress grew, and John found five tubes. We left the cress to be gathered on the way back and went upstream to look at the guns.

We were nearly across the field when we saw it.

It was on the other side of the brook, floating in a tangle of alder roots. It was grey, with a neck, and a black mark or letters or numbers on the side. We couldn’t read them that far off. But we knew.

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