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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2

by Neil Gaiman
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/04/2014
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THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'



AN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****



'Neil Gaiman's entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality that the reader has no choice but to surrender to a waking dream' ARMISTEAD MAUPIN



'Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' JOANNE HARRIS



'Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting' GUARDIAN



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'My favourite response to this book is when people say, 'My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if I was reading about me' NEIL GAIMAN



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This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:



A dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.

An ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.

A beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.

And dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.



They are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edges of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved . . .



NEIL GAIMAN.

WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.



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**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**
ISBN:
9781472200341
9781472200341
Category:
Fantasy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-04-2014
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x22mm
Weight:
0.2kg

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As always, what Gaiman has given in The Ocean at the End of the Lane is something that gently takes you by the hand, and leads you into places you never imagined existed. This time it's a pretty creepy, dark kind of place, while at the same time it is homely and warm.

Gaiman takes the unusual and makes it matter of fact. There's a deceptive everyday ordinariness about it, when often it's anything but.

Gaiman is one of those few authors that never disappoint. I love everything he's written, and I'm positive I will continue to do so for as long as he writes (which I hope is a long time.)

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Ocean At The End Of The Lane feels more subtle than some of Neil Gaiman's previous work, and not just because of its slight extent. It feels more carefully crafted, and the result is a beautiful, eerie story which taps in to all the magic and unsettling loneliness of childhood. Very impressive.

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