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Childhood innocence clashes with eldritch terrors.

Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is a mesmerizing dive into the heart of childhood memories, a bewitching blend of reality and fantasy that'll grip you with its delicate sense of wonder and the chilling threat lurking beneath. If you crave a narrative that's as comforting as it is spine-tingling, stitching together the mystique of age-old myths with the poignant struggles of growing up, this book will resonate deeply and leave you contemplating long after the last page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781472228420

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A special Christmas edition of the Sunday Times bestseller. WINNER OF THE
SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR Dive into a magical
novel of memory and the adventure of childhood, from one of the brightest,
most brilliant writers of our generation. 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.


Author: Neil Gaiman
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group (GB)
Publication Date: 05 Nov 2015
 

Childhood innocence clashes with eldritch terrors.

Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is a mesmerizing dive into the heart of childhood memories, a bewitching blend of reality and fantasy that'll grip you with its delicate sense of wonder and the chilling threat lurking beneath. If you crave a narrative that's as comforting as it is spine-tingling, stitching together the mystique of age-old myths with the poignant struggles of growing up, this book will resonate deeply and leave you contemplating long after the last page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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