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  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • A Novel
  • By: Neil Gaiman
  • Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (24,800 ratings)

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
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Audie Award Finalist, Narration by the Author or Authors, 2014

Audie Award Finalist, Fiction, 2014

Sussex, England: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean), the unremembered past comes flooding back. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. A stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

©2013 Neil Gaiman (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers

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this book was so good, it's not my normal read but it was recommended to me so I gave it a go. I kept wanting to know what's next. great book.

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Strange and lovely

This was my first experience with Neil Gaiman and I was not disappointed. This book was strange and lovely, funny and heartbreaking, terrifying and really wonderful in its storytelling. I want to physically read this book now after listening to it.

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Loved this

I enjoyed everything about this story: the plot, the author's narration, the imagination that went into it. Would love there to be a sequel.

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Magical

This was a wonderful listen. There is magic in these words and the way they are spoken. Thank you for the journey.

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Neil Gaimain!

Magical story, magically told! Loved it! recommending to all my book loving friends and family!

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Divine

In my mind, Neil Gaiman is one of our true literary geniuses. To read his stories is a pleasure. To have HIM read them to me, Divine!

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stunning story telling!

i really enjoy Neils work, everything i have read or listened too from American gods, to the Graveyard book and more, have left me in search for the next! now on to the search for another! Thank you again!

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Terrific As Always

Thanks Neil you have done it again! My favorite narrator and storyteller. Worth the buy.

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Loved it

Story was encompassing. Narrator couldn't have been better! I can't wait to read another of his books. Truly wonderful story.

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Fantastic work by a gifted storyteller

Much has been written already about Neil Gaiman's work. It was well written and narrated by an author who is clearly passionate about his work.

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