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Having only read a couple of Neil Gaiman books before I was very happy when my book club chose this and it did not disappoint.
The 40 year old narrator of this story is attending a funeral in the area where he used to live as a child when he finds himself drawn to visiting where his old house was and going down to end of he lane to a dilapidated farm house and pond owned by the Hemstock family. Here he talks to one of the ladies and realises he was drawn to revisiting here due to the harrowing an ...more
The 40 year old narrator of this story is attending a funeral in the area where he used to live as a child when he finds himself drawn to visiting where his old house was and going down to end of he lane to a dilapidated farm house and pond owned by the Hemstock family. Here he talks to one of the ladies and realises he was drawn to revisiting here due to the harrowing an ...more
The story reminds me very much of my imagination and the games I would play as I would explore when I was a child. It seems to blend seamlessly between imagination and nightmare in a beautiful fantasy world where the reader is forced to question what is the protagonists reality and what is simply a childhood fantasy. If I had to liken it to other books I've read, I suppose Steven King's 'The Langoliers' and James Herbert's 'Once...' or 'Others' come to mind, albeit from a childhood perspective.
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What was that?! I feel like I’ve just read someone’s nightmare!
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