The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Adult fairy tales don't get much better than this B. Case Right up front I should admit, I'd never heard of Neil Gaiman before I read an enthusiastic newspaper review about this book and decided to preorder it a few days ago. Last night, it was wirelessly delivered to my Kindle and this morning, I picked it up and started reading. Almost instantly, I was so absorbed and lo. I loved this book; it is all of gloomy, heartbreaking, and magical; in the end, it is completely hope-filled Neil Gaiman is one of those modern authors I automatically categorize as classic. I've loved his previous novels and all his little projects in between, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane solidifies his position as one of my all-time favorite writers.Through a drowsy, overwhelming narrative, we follow the sudden, . A Haunting Fairy Tale Joseph Finley This book has one of the most haunting covers, and I’ll confess it is the reason I was drawn to the novel. Nonetheless, it took me a good while to actually start reading it. I’m sorry I waited so long.After a brief preface that hints of an old country that sank into the ocean, and an even older country t

He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean), the unremembered past comes flooding back. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. A stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. Audie Award Finalist, Narration by the Author or Authors, 2014Audie Award Finalist, Fiction, 2014Sussex, England: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out