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The owl service by Alan Garner; 23 editions; First published in 1967; Subjects: Legends, Juvenile fiction, Space and time, Fiction, Adult fiction, repetition, Eternal.
In fact, The Owl Service is one of the books that dragged me into becoming a medieval historian and also persuaded me that understanding who people are in relation to their culture is so very important. Alan Garner doesn’t explore the Middle Ages deeply in The Owl Service. He uses one small legend to build a modern study of class and personality and how where you come from and what.
The Owl Service Alan Garner Harper Collins ISBN 0006754015 This was a bizarre little book. It is a retelling of an old Welsh legend - a legend of a curse that is relived in each generation, again and again, in the same Welsh Valley. The main characters are Allison and Roger who are Step Siblings and Gwen is the son of the flitch - the wise man of the valley.