The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Author(s): Neil Gaiman

Contemporary | Jane | Fantasy & Magical Realism | Ages 14+ | Sarah

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive. There is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.


His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.


THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.


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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. Mid-West Times

Neil Gaiman is the acclaimed and award-winning author of the novels American Gods, Stardust, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards, his work has been adapted for film, television, and radio, including Stardust (2007) and the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated animated feature film Coraline (2009). He has written scripts for 'Doctor Who' and collaborated with Terry Pratchett, and The Sandman is already established as one of the classic graphic novels. As George R. R. Martin says, 'There's no one quite like Neil Gaiman'.

General Fields

  • : 9781472228420
  • : Headline
  • : Headline
  • : 0.226
  • : October 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FM
  • : 272
  • : 823/.914
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Neil Gaiman