Neil Gaiman

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

nikki

The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at a being a person, dear.”

“Nothing’s ever the same,” she said. “Be it a second later or a hundred years. It’s always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”

chapter 3. this is book feels like a lovely daydream 

once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, “Be whole,” and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.

“I remember my own childhood vividly … I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.”

- Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, 27 September 1993

momo-reads

Engrossing story from an author I am generally on the fence about.  Like a fairy tale in a sense- not neat and tidy and plenty of things dont make sense but that is the way it is supposed to be.

Frederik De Bosschere

Kayla Sitton

i had a feeling that neil gaiman gets me... what with sandmad and coraline but this one. i couldn't have imagined just how deeply this would resonate with me. childhood is hard, and mostly a dream, i agree. it's so much. i feel so understood. i feel so seen. thank you @ neil. 

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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