Owl Service by Alan Garner
Who decides how you should behave? Your parents, your friends?
What if your Mum decides that her upper-class daughter shouldn't hang out with the Cook's son?
What if the cook decides her son shouldn't talk to the slightly odd handyman?
Who decides how the woman made of flowers should behave, the sorcerer who created her, the man she might love, or her own self?
What happens when the spirit of the flower-woman breaks through the bindings that generations of sorcerers have put on her, and someone dies?
Incidentally, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was written in 1998.
The Owl Service was written in 1967.
The word "Service" does not refer to mail service by owl, it refers to a dinner service (plates) with owl pictures on them.
What if your Mum decides that her upper-class daughter shouldn't hang out with the Cook's son?
What if the cook decides her son shouldn't talk to the slightly odd handyman?
Who decides how the woman made of flowers should behave, the sorcerer who created her, the man she might love, or her own self?
What happens when the spirit of the flower-woman breaks through the bindings that generations of sorcerers have put on her, and someone dies?
Incidentally, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was written in 1998.
The Owl Service was written in 1967.
The word "Service" does not refer to mail service by owl, it refers to a dinner service (plates) with owl pictures on them.