Gwyn finds a tower of dinner plates decorated with a flowery pattern. Alison notices strange sounds coming from the attic and convinces Gwyn inspect it. Nancy does not tell Gwyn about Huw, who later is revealed to be his father. Nancy brings her son Gwyn, who has never been to the valley before but knows everything about it from his mother’s stories. A former cook named Nancy took a job in nearby Aberystwyth, but has been recruited back to the house to work alongside Huw. The house comes equipped with Huw Halfbacon (aka Huw the Flitch), who serves as gardener and handyman. Alison’s father inherited the house from his cousin Bertram, who died mysteriously around the time Alison was born. Once there, they reside in a home once belonging to Alison’s father, which has been transferred to Alison to avert inheritance tax. Attempting to bond, the family decides to spend summer vacation in an isolated Welsh valley. Clive’s former wife was so unfaithful that she brought immense pain and embarrassment to Roger. Alison’s father is deceased, and her mother Margaret remarried to Clive, a businessman and ex-RAF soldier. Narrated in the third person perspective (personal), the story begins in Britain during the 1970s. 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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