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I've had this on my TBR for so long I had almost given up hope that I would get to read it, but the library had a copy!!!!

I liked the range of folk tales from around the world, although a lot are from Great Britain, overall it was a good mix of different countries which is nice to read but I only ended up enjoying a handful of tales.

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Wonderful, and wonder-full!
Some tales are a page long, others a dozen to a score, but all perfectly crafted by the master storyteller.
While mainly selected from Britain, Garner roves the world, from Russia to Turtle Island, from Japan to Africa, and points in-between.
The longest is a vivid retelling of the Ramayana, one of the shorter and weirder is that of Great Head. Odin and Loki appear, and there are phantom dogs, giants, goblins, quests ⬇️

"There was a hill that ate people."
- Gobbleknoll

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Although blurbed as being British folk tales, Garner's selection in the first few stories I've read includes Britain, Guatemala, Ireland and Japan: he's always more interesting than he's given credit for, I think.
He says that the voice he's used in the stories is that of his grandfather, retrieving the stories from literary amber and restoring the flow and immediacy of oral storytelling from which the tales originate. I love Alan Garner 💖