#1 New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman , a haunting novel that explores the awesome power of memory, friendship, and sacrifice one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee A novel about the truths--some wonderful, some terrible--that children know and adults do not." -- Time Magazine Returning to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all too frighteningly real . . . A haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane , which was named "Book of the Year" by the UK National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.