[1] The story is about a young boy Joseph Coppock who squints at the world with his lazy eyes.
One day, rag-and-bone man Treacle Walker appears who was exchanging donkey stone and an empty jar of all disease medicine for lamb's shoulder blades and a pair of Coppock's pajamas then, a mysterious friendship develops between them.
Sam Leith of The Daily Telegraph gave it five out of five ratings,[4] Anna Robinson of The Conversation named it "best fiction of 2022",[5] Shubhangi Tiwari of Scroll.in wrote: "Treacle Walker is a book as endearing as it is awe-inspiring, and a testament not only to the wisdom of age, but also to the power of attuning the novel to a space of possibility over truth.
"[6] and Pauline Kim of The Michigan Daily wrote: "Alan Garner's Treacle Walker might just be the strangest book I've ever read.".
[7] The book has been also reviewed by Susie Goldsbrough of The Times,[8] Max Liu of i,[9] Justine Jordan of The Guardian,[10] Maureen Kincaid Speller of Strange Horizons,[11] Alyssa Woo of The Straits Times,[12] Alex Preston of The Guardian,[13] Karthik Keramalu of The New Indian Express,[14] Carolyne Larrington of The Times Literary Supplement,[15] Simon Demetriou of Cyprus Mail[16] and Felix Taylor of Literary Review.