A stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what.Ī 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. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. 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. 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. Sussex, England: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Breathtaking by fine artist and illustrator, Elise Hurst. Get this audiobook free when you try Audible: the bestselling magical novel from master storyteller Neil Gaiman. To book more than 10 tickets, please contact contact the box office.The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman on Audible: Group discounts will be automatically applied when the qualifying number of tickets have been added to your basket. Schools offer – Wed and Thu performances – £11 plus 1 free teacher for every ten pupils purchase Plunged into a magical world, their survival depends on their ability to reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything around them. He’s transported to his 12th birthday when his remarkable friend Lettie claimed it wasn’t a pond, but an ocean – a place where everything is possible…
Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. This thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship, is a five-star spectacular which blends magic with memory in a tour-de-force of storytelling that takes audiences on an epic journey to a childhood once forgotten and the darkness that lurks at the very edge of it. ‘The National Theatre at its very best.’ (Daily Telegraph)įrom the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Coraline, Good Omens and The Sandman, comes the National Theatre’s major new stage adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
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