neil gaiman the ocean at the end of the lane

Having been instructed never to let go of her hand, in a moment of surprise he does, and in that instant something lodges in his foot. She agrees to help, insisting that he accompany her on the travel necessary to find the spirit and bind it. The main narrative starts as he recalls a time when an opal miner, who was living at the boy's home, steals the narrator's father's car and commits suicide in the back seat, having gambled away his friends' money this death allows a supernatural being to gain access to the narrator's world, leaving money for people in unpleasant ways.Īfter a coin becomes lodged in the narrator's throat overnight, choking him, he seeks his neighbour Lettie's help. He stops at the house where Lettie had lived with her mother and grandmother and encounters a member of her family and starts to remember forgotten incidents from the past. There he revisits the area in which he and his sister grew up and remembers a young girl named Lettie Hempstock, who had claimed that the pond behind her house was an ocean. The book starts with the unnamed protagonist returning to his childhood hometown for a funeral. Īmong other honours, it was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. Themes in The Ocean at the End of the Lane include the search for self-identity and the 'disconnect between childhood and adulthood'. The illustrated edition of the work was published on 5 November 2019, featuring the artwork of Australian fine artist Elise Hurst. The work was first published on 18 June 2013 through William Morrow and Company and follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman. Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2014)

Neil gaiman the ocean at the end of the lane