Personally, I thought the story was really interesting. There’s an absolute wealth of 5 and 4 star reviews to be found. Well, this is certainly not a book that is short on positive reviews. I did find that they enhanced my reading experience a lot in terms of atmospheric visualisation. It was a rather unique style of art, but it really suited the story perfectly. The illustrations were really interesting, very moody but also a little bit abstract. If you’re an actual book collector, a long-time fan of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or both things combined, then you’ll want to grab a copy of this one. It’s an absolutely gorgeous book, with a cloth bound hard cover and such luxuriously thick pages, they almost felt like cardboard. The edition that I’ve read is a newly released illustrated version. Too many have said it’s a book that everyone must read, so I was reading it either way.
I actually went into this book having no idea at all what it was going to be about (perhaps an ocean at the end of a lane? – but this was mere speculation), I didn’t even read the blurb. It seems to pop up in favourite book lists all over, and I’ve seen it name dropped into many a discussion about that slippery beast that people like to call ‘my favourite book ever’. It is a book that I have heard so much about, particularly since I started blogging.
So it looks as though I’m no longer the only person left in the world who hasn’t read The Ocean at the End of the Lane. THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac – as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly’s wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.
The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. There is primal horror here, and menace unleashed – within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. The Ocean at the End of the Lane… About the Book:įrom New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, comes a novel of memory, magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us.Ī special Christmas edition of the bestseller.
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