{"product_id":"9781472200341","title":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman","description":"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---'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.   An ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.   A beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.   And dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.   They 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 . . .   NEIL GAIMAN.   WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.   ---**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204476043442,"sku":"9781472200341","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781472200341.jpg?v=1705424513","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781472200341","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}