6/29/2023 0 Comments The owl service by alan garner![]() The novel also won the second annual Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, making the novel one of only six to win both awards between 19. The Owl Service won the 1967 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for best children’s book by a British author. Garner reenacts the myth using three teenagers as the main characters. When Blodeuwedd cheats on her husband Lleu and asks her lover Gronw to kill him, she is turned into an owl as punishment. Blodeuwedd is made of flowers by Math, the king of Gwynedd, and the tricky magician Gwydion, to be given to a man blighted to have a non-human wife. Set in Wales during the 1970s, the story is adapted from the mythological Welsh woman Blodeuwedd, who appears in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. The Owl Service is the 1967 young-adult low fantasy novel written by English author Alan Garner. ![]()
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