He has written his own experience of psychotherapy into the novel. Garner says that the focus of his research for the book was "the universal myth of the sleeping hero". A lone Stone-Age cave dweller leaves "Ludcruck" (the chasm of Ludchurch) in search of companionship. Interleaved with Colin's tale is another story set in the same part of England but at a distant time.
He visits a psychotherapist and the gradual uncovering of his past forms the main story. He has a form of amnesia which means he remembers nothing from before the age of 13, including his twin sister and his childhood adventures.
His solitary home is a kit-built hut ("A Bergli") in a quarry.
The boy Colin from the earlier novels is now an adult, still living near the top of Alderley Edge but now a professor working at the nearby Jodrell Bank Observatory. Boneland is a 2012 novel by Alan Garner, a sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath.
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