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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The work was first published on 18 June 2013 through William Morrow and Company and follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier. The illustrated edition of the work was published on 5 November 2019, featuring the artwork of Australian fine artist Elise Hurst.


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“Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.”

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 10 (p. 151)

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“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 6 (p. 77)

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