Fantasy fiction

Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Aug 2013
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Fantasy fiction

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE
By
Neil Gaiman
Headline. 248 pages. £6.99
ISBN 978 1 472 208 668

I’d not heard of Neil Gaiman before I heard him being interviewed in June.

He writes fantasy, a genre I left behind aged 13. That interview reminded me what a significant chunk of fiction I had been ignoring for 30 years, and so I duly bought the book.

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