I won’t give too much away but I will say that what follows is completely engrossing. It was set in my own wonderful Sussex, though the world laced together by Gaiman was wholly unlike any place I’ve ever known (in a good way!) We begin with the narrative voice of a man returning to the town where he grew up he wanders absentmindedly towards the farm he vaguely remembers and that’s when the first tendrils of magic hint at their unfurling. I can’t wait to read more of Gaiman’s wonders.
It made me smile without explicit humour and induced tears without dramatic deaths – what a fabulous read. It was magical, gripping and totally played to my sensibilities by blending darkness and magic seamlessly. I finished ‘The Ocean At The End Of The Lane’ by Neil Gaiman in May 2018 and it’s definitely a 5 read. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark. And Lettie-magical, comforting, wise beyond her years-promised to protect him, no matter what.Ī groundbreaking work from a master, 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. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways.
And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.įorty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. 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, the unremembered past comes flooding back.
marvellous!)Īlthough 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. I read my first Neil Gaiman book! (and it.
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