The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Illustrated Edition) - by Neil Gaiman (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

"A novel about the truths--some wonderful, some terrible--that children know and adults do not." --Time magazine

A beautiful, immersive, fully illustrated edition of Neil Gaiman's beloved #1 bestselling novel, featuring illustrations by Elise Hurst.

"They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . ."

A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.

Wondrous, imaginative, impossible, and at times deeply scary, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is classic Neil Gaiman and has captured the hearts of readers everywhere. This beautiful illustrated edition features haunting, emotive artwork by renowned fine artist Elise Hurst, whose illustrations seamlessly interweave the childhood wonder and harrowing danger that infuse Gaiman's beloved tale.

"Fantasy of the very best."--Wall Street Journal

Review Quotes

"Remarkable . . . wrenchingly, gorgeously elegiac. . . . In The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Gaiman summons up childhood magic and adventure while acknowledging their irrevocable loss, and he stitches the elegiac contradictions together so tightly that you won't see the seams." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Gaiman has crafted an achingly beautiful memoir of an imagination and a spellbinding story that sets three women at the center of everything. . . . It's a meditation on memory and mortality, a creative reflection on how the defining moments of childhood can inhabit the worlds we imagine." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"His prose is simple but poetic, his world strange but utterly believable―if he was South American we would call this magic realism rather than fantasy." - The Times (London)

"Worthy of a sleepless night . . . a fairy tale for adults that explores both innocence lost and the enthusiasm for seeing what's past one's proverbial fence . . . Gaiman is a master of creating worlds just a step to the left of our own." - USA Today

"Poignant and heartbreaking, eloquent and frightening, impeccably rendered, it's a fable that reminds us how our lives are shaped by childhood experiences, what we gain from them and the price we pay." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A compelling tale for all ages . . . entirely absorbing and wholly moving." - New York Daily News