{"product_id":"9781472200341","title":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane","description":"Author: Neil Gaiman\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472200341\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Headline\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Apr 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eARMISTEAD MAUPIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' \u003cb\u003eJOANNE HARRIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eNEIL GAIMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 . . .\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEIL GAIMAN.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW\u003cb\u003eITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46378761846942,"sku":"ADS-9781472200341","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472200341.jpg?v=1767759472","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472200341","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}