Ocean at the End of the Lane

A Novel

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Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013, HarperCollins Publishers)

256 pages

English language

Published April 7, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
9780062278593

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, coming of age
  • Large type books