The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Audie Award Finalist Narration by the Author or Authors 2014Audie Award Finalist Fiction 2014Sussex England: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road where when he was seven he encountered a most remarkable girl Lettie Hempstock. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) the unremembered past comes flooding back. Forty years earlier a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical comforting wise beyond her years - promised to protect him no matter what. A groundbreaking work from a master The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. A stirring terrifying and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.