Flamingo

An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

77-85 Fulham Palace Road,

Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

A Flamingo Modern Classic 1999

Previously published in one volume by

William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1983

Copyright © Alan Garner 1976, 1977, 1978

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

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination, Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.

ISBN 0 00 655151 3

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.