He feels like an imposter in his adult clothes and it’s been years since he’s been there.
Our main character, we’ll call him George after the nickname his father gave him, returns to his home town for a funeral. So I know that I will enjoy it, just by how much Initial Thoughts After Reading: This gets me very excited for book club this month, because it’s an author I’ve intended to read for a very long time. I know many Neil Gaiman novels, but I’ve never read any of them. Horror | A – PW |Body Horror, Suicide, Cheating | Childhood vs Adulthood, Truths of the World And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.Ī groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, 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. 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 where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. 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. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real…Ī middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral.
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