The 50th birthday of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a great excuse for a festival – and some serious reading.
The view from Alderley Edge, the setting for Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Photograph: Phil Noble/PA
We went to an autumnal wedding near Alderley Edge when I was 10, and I remember so clearly the walk we went on the next day: cold and gloomy and grey though it was, I scurried off by myself to lean against a rock and try, desperately to imagine myself into the world of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. I wanted the svart-alfar to attack me, Cadellin to rescue me, and the still, anticipatory atmosphere of those dimly lit woods almost convinced me they might.
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