The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By Neil Gaiman

Book overview

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman. 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 was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. And #1 in The NewYork Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list (2013).

 The book starts with the unnamed protagonist returning to his childhood hometown for a funeral. There he revisits the home 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. 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.

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