The Owl Service
core novel 1967 The Owl Service
Record
| First published | 1967 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.66 (8,280 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 219 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780007127894 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Owl Service
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Alan Garner
Awards (verified)
- Carnegie Medal for Writing, 1967: won; Confirmed directly via the CILIP/Yoto Carnegie Medal's own official winners archive (carnegies.co.uk), which lists "1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins". A widely repeated secondary claim (Wikipedia and others) that the novel also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize could not be independently corroborated against a primary source and is deliberately NOT registered here.
Notes
- A retelling of the Welsh legend of Blodeuwedd (from the Mabinogion's Fourth Branch), a woman made of flowers and transformed into an owl for betrayal: three teenagers in a remote Welsh valley find themselves compelled to re-enact the ancient love-triangle tragedy across generations.
Sources
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