It’s possible to read Lettie, Ginnie, and Old Mrs. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series, as well as Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Within the novel itself, the narrator mentions C.S. Other books that share this kind of broad appeal include Kate DiCamillo’s works like The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Tale of Desperaux, as well as J.K. Among Gaiman’s other works, the most similar to Ocean are The Graveyard Book and Coraline-all three feature young characters but tackle complex themes and thus appeal to adults as well. Like the Hempstocks who appear in The Ocean at the End of the Lane, there are also Hempstock women in Neil Gaiman’s other books Stardust and in The Graveyard Book. He has been married twice-as of 2020, he’s married to the musician Amanda Palmer, whom Ocean is dedicated to-and has four children. In addition to writing novels and children’s picture books, Gaiman has also written for and worked in film and television he’s appeared as himself in The Simpsons and has written episodes for Doctor Who.

Gaiman’s novels, like the Sandman series, have received mountains of praise and a number of awards. There, he wrote the Sandman series, which eventually became some of DC’s best-selling titles and some of Gaiman’s most famous work. He began writing for comic books in the mid-1980s and was hired as a writer for DC Comics in 1987. He initially pursued a career in journalism, but he also published several short stories, a biography of the band Duran Duran, and a book of quotations as he wrote for magazines. Like the narrator, Gaiman was a prolific reader as a child, a habit that followed him into adulthood. His parents moved to study Scientology, a religious affiliation that caused some issues for Gaiman-one headmaster forced seven-year-old Gaiman to withdraw from school due to his father’s role as a public relations official for the local Scientologist center. When he was five, the family moved to Sussex, where they lived in the house that eventually inspired the setting of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Gaiman was born in Portchester, England, the oldest of three children.

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