The Gritterman | Orlando Weeks

'Extraordinary and original' Raymond Briggs'A tender fireside story about an ageing labourer ...
witty, affectionate ...
enchanting, in the vein of The Snowman' Evening Standard'Sometimes it feels like I might be the only person awake in the whole country.
People might find that a lonely thought.
Not me...'As the rest of the world sleeps, the Gritterman goes out to work.
Through the wind and the snow.
Through the blue-black hours when time slips away, he grits the paths and the pavements and the roads.
For him, a life without gritting is no life at all...A song for the unsung hero, this is a story about stoicism, dignity and a man leaving behind the work that he loves.
It is accompanied by the author's own illustrations.