{"product_id":"9781472200341","title":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Gaiman, Neil\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 8 April 2014 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Book Publishing).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e163 x 241 x 43 | 202g\u003cp\u003eTHE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'AN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****'Neil Gaiman's entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality that the reader has no choice but to surrender to a waking dream' ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' JOANNE HARRIS'Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting' GUARDIAN---'My favourite response to this book is when people say, 'My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if I was reading about me' NEIL GAIMAN---This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:A dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edges of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEIL GAIMAN.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gaiman, Neil","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465695760568,"sku":"9781472200341","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781472200341.jpg?v=1734704420","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781472200341","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}