The Ocean at the End of the Lane

In middle life, a man returns to his childhood home for a funeral. He walks to the farm at the end of the lane and is overcome with memories that bely a seemingly ordinary childhood. The pond that his friend Lettie Hempstock used to say was an ocean; the uncanny powers of Lettie and her mother and grandmother, and a dangerous adventure that they were caught up in together that affected his family in unexpected ways. Beautiful and disturbing, this book shows how a seemingly ordinary family can become something magical, dangerous, and strange.