{"product_id":"the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane","title":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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' ARMISTEAD MAUPIN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' JOANNE HARRIS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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' NEIL GAIMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEIL GAIMAN.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44521687482505,"sku":"9781472208668","price":50.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9781472208668.jpg?v=1755405568","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}