Red Shift (capitalized) is a complex novel (1973) for teenagers and adults set in three intertwined time periods spanning 900 years but one geographical area: Mow Cop in [Staffordshire, England]?. Alan Garner evokes the essence of place, allowing his characters to echo each other through time, as if their destinies may be predefined by the soil on which they walk. These are themes explored more tangibly in his easier, earlier work '[The Owl Service]?', but brought here to maturity in a weave of rapid, impressionistic dialogue.
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