{"product_id":"the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane","title":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane","description":"                                            \u003cb\u003eTHE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION *****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Neil Gaiman's entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality that the reader has no choice but to surrender to a waking dream' \u003cb\u003eARMISTEAD MAUPIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' \u003cb\u003eJOANNE HARRIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'My favourite response to this book is when people say, 'My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if I was reading about me' \u003cb\u003eNEIL GAIMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edges of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved . . .\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEIL GAIMAN.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW\u003cb\u003eITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil Gaiman has spent his adult life making things up and writing them down. He lives more in America than he does anywhere else. He has written books and films and children's books and television. He has a blog over at www.neilgaiman.com. He's won more than his fair share of literary awards, was voted twenty-first equal on a recent poll of Great British Authors, and has no idea where he put his keys.\r\n                                        ","brand":"The Ocean at the End of the Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42280789409983,"sku":"9781472200341","price":25.19,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/dBW_HlvRs6CoTDmstL4NdpKqTuA-XJf0V2Aj4abnYE80LA_60_60.jpg?v=1678944727","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}