![]() ![]() The book is told from the adult narrator's perspective, looking back on the time as a child when he discovered the strange women who live at the end of his lane, one of whom can remember the Big Bang, and one of whom believes the pond in her garden is an ocean. ![]() That lane was how I remembered it, when nothing else was." "Soon I was driving slowly, bumpily down a narrow lane with brambles and briar roses on each side, wherever the edge was not a stand of hazels or a wild hedgerow. "The slick black road became narrower, windier, became the single-lane track I remembered from my childhood, became packed earth and knobbly, bone-like flints," Gaiman's narrator tells us. The novel – the story of a seven-year-old boy who learns of the terrifying, wonderful universes that exist alongside our own – is set in the landscapes in which Gaiman grew up. The author was born six miles north-west of Portsmouth in White Hart Lane, Portchester, and grew up in Purbook and then Southsea. ![]()
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