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Books like ocean at the end of the lane6/24/2023 He believes Lettie has gone to Australia, but as he visits her family and sits beside Lettie’s ocean, he undergoes a sort of daydream about what really happened to Lettie, the frightening adventure they might have shared in childhood, a dream that may or may not be a memory. As he nears Hempstock Farm at the very end, he begins to remember things from his past, about the girl who lived there at the end of the lane, who called the fish pond behind the farm house her ocean. Without knowing quite why, he passes the place where his parents’ house once stood and continues down the lane. I had high hopes for The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and it definitely lived up to my expectations.Ībout the book: A man is attending a funeral near his childhood home, and decides afterward to detour down the lane where his family used to live. I loved Neil Gaiman’s Coraline as a child (although the other mother’s button eyes particularly terrified me), and when I read his new Norse Mythology book earlier this year I was inspired to pick up a few more of his novels.
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