THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving terrifying & elegiac
- as pure as a dream as delicate as a butterfly's wing as dangerous as a knife in the dark
- from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car & committed suicide in it stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose & it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here & menace unleashed
- within his family & from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.