![]() ![]() ![]() At night, he is on Alderley Edge, watching", said Garner's publisher. In Boneland, Colin is a professor who spends his days at Jodrell Bank "using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. Why did it take so long for Boneland to gestate? All I can say is that it took as long as it took." ![]() The links to the book-not-written had become subliminal cliffhangers. There are nuggets in the text that hint of unfinished business. The lack of the third book, I discovered, gave the readers of the first two a sense of urgency. "When I set out at three minutes past four on Tuesday the fourth of September 1956 to discover whether or not I could write, I saw the first piece of work as a trilogy, but I didn't know why that was so, nor what shape it would take," said Garner today. The author has now completed the trilogy with Boneland, out from Fourth Estate in August, which sees an adult Colin searching for his lost sister. Drawing on local myth and legend, Garner continued the story of Colin and Susan in The Moon of Gomrath, in which the siblings light a fire on Alderley Edge and summon the Wild Hunt. ![]()
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