Publisher's Synopsis
Limited edition one of 260 hardbacks individually signed and numbered
PLUS Unabridged audio edition on 5 CDs, read by Neil Gaiman
Cloth slipcase silver blocked
Quarterbound hardcover leather spine silver blocked
Blue sprayed edges Head and tail bands
Ribbon
2 colour throughout
4 colour endpapers and frontispiece
15 transparent, illustrated pages author Q and A
25 exclusive pages reproduced from author's notebooks
WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark - from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman.
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.
His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
