“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine, to spotlight upcoming releases that make me clap in bookish glee.
This week’s selection is:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Release date: June 18, 2013
Publisher: William Morrow Books
Why? Neil Gaiman. Enough said.
From the jacket:
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 the 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 defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duck pond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
This does sound wonderful. Can’t go wrong with Gaiman, right? Hope you love it!
Exactly. I don’t think there is one thing he had written that hasn’t made me stop everything in the world to read it! He is long overdue for an adult novel, too.
I haven’t read his books, I don’t even know how many books he has. I like the sound of this though, it sounds more adult. I’ve been reading a lot of YA lately.
If you tend more toward the YA and would like to enter the world of Gaiman, I would suggest starting with ‘The Graveyard Book’. However, ‘Neverwhere’ will make you an instant fan if you like the idea of undergound secret worlds and such. Hope you get a chance to read one soon- he just created such amazing worlds and characters with a very old and creepy vibe.