Neil Gaiman's Newest Novel

I just finished reading Neil Gaiman’s newest novel, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”. It was a great read, especially if you are looking for a summer getaway of unexpected twists and turns and magic. This book just landed on the New York Times Bestseller list for adults. I would not recommend this book for the younger audience, there is a very scary, scandalous character that I would not even, begin to explain to anyone under the age of 18 yrs old.

 A funny, creepy thing happened to me just after I finished reading this book. While I was floating in my pool, a very large bug swam into my ear…if you read this book, you will understand why I felt a little freaked out!

By the way, I had the best opportunity to meet Neil Gaimen during his visit to Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, MI on July 7th. He made a huge impression on me.  5 star rating for Neil and for, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”. Below I have quoted a review from “Goodreads.com”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman

“Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, 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, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

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. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.(less)”

 Maria Kelly

Brighton Barnes & Noble

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