Teaser Tuesdays #16: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Hello all!

Welcome to Teaser Tuesday!

A great meme hosted by Miz B 

at Should Be Reading!

The teaser this week is from

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.

"I was sad that nobody had come to my party, 

but happy that I had a Batman figure, 

and there was a birthday present waiting to be read, 

a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. 

I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.

I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway."

(Page 9)

I just love, love, love Neil Gaiman.

This book was amazing.

Look for the review soon!