The Book Mistresses​​

    A middle -aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drwan to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most reamarkable girl, Lettie Hemstock, and her mother and granmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the  pond (a pond that she claimed wa an ocean) behind the rambleshack old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

     A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, 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.