# The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Hardcover

by **Neil Gaiman** (Author)

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, _The Ocean at the End of the Lane_ is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 _New York Times_ bestseller _Anansi Boys._

This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...

### Front Jacket

**A Globe & Mail 100 Selection**

A major new work from "a writer to make readers rejoice" (_Minneapolis Star Tribune_)-- a moving story of memory, magic, and survival

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, 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, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. 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.

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. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

\--_Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)

### Back Jacket

**A Globe & Mail 100 Selection**

A major new work from "a writer to make readers rejoice" (_Minneapolis Star Tribune_)-- a moving story of memory, magic, and survival

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, 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, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. 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.

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. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** June 18, 2013

**Award:** Nebula Awards (2013)

**Award:** Locus Awards (2014)

**Award:** Volunteer State Book Awards (2016)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Ocean at the End of the Lane

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.3

**Point Value:** 8

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- **Price:** 28.0 USD
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