Treacle WalkerPlayful, moving and wholly remarkable Guardian A small miracle New Statesman Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page Telegraph An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag and bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure all medicine and a donkey stone