Magical Realism

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman

A man returns to his childhood home for a funeral and finds himself drawn to the farm at the end of the lane, where he once knew Lettie Hempstock and her family. What begins as a memory becomes a journey into a past filled with ancient magic, incomprehensible evil, and a young girl's extraordinary power. Gaiman weaves a haunting fable about memory, childhood, and the things that wait at the edges of reality.

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