Why did I love this book?
This novel(ette) does what so many others endeavor to and it does it in droves. Gaiman wields the fabric of mythology to craft a supernatural suspense/contemporary fantast story that envelopes the reader and draws us into two worlds. We all feel as though there is something living just beyond our perceptions and Gaiman harnesses that to drive a wildly enticing, and, at times, terrifying, story about a boy unwittingly wrapped in the winds of fate. The mundane is pushed aside for the fantastic and I would give just about anything to read this story again for the very first time.
15 authors picked The Ocean at the End of the Lane as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
THE 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
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'My favourite response to this book is when people say, 'My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if…