This work is somewhat similar to Gaiman’s earlier novel Coraline in some ways, where a young person is trying to make there way through a strange world that doesn’t make sense and is fraught with supernatural frights and dangers. Gaiman is accomplished at using description to frighten and entertain the reader, and we get a wonderful tale in this novel that has elements of fantasy and even mythology. Gaiman, known for bestselling works like American Gods, has done an incredible job at developing some very unique ideas and concepts, and building them into a page-turner that ideally should be read in one or two sittings. Gaiman’s original concept was to write this as a short story, but there was so much to say that it grew into the novel that is before readers now. His seven-year old self is helped during this time by a unique 11-year old girl and her mother and grandmother.īestselling author Neil Gaiman is back with a dark, fantastical work of fiction, in the short novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The Ocean at the End of the Lane concerns a man who returns to his childhood neighbourhood, and remembers a frightening, cryptic series of incidents that occurred when he was a seven-year old boy.
Read 181-page hardcover edition in February 2016.
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