try to retell the book Currently, I'm reading an interesting book called "The ocean at the end of the lane" by Neil Gaiman. I've been reading it for a month and I still haven't finished it. At the beginning of the story, the middle-aged man returns to his hometown to the funeral. He goes to his old house and then down the country lane of his childhood. At the end of the lane, he sees the farm and remembers it immediately, his friend a girl named Lettie Hempstock lived there. The man goes to the farm's pond, sits on the bench near it. While he was looking at the water he remembered everything. Now the story is the narrator's memories of his childhood. We see his seventh birthday with no friends. The boy is not happy, he loves to read books more than anything else. Then his parents start to allowing boarders to live in his former bedroom for extra cash. One of the boarders was an opal miner, who stole his father's car and committed suicide in the back seat of the car near the Hempstock's farm. Through this, the boy meets Lettie Hempstock who is a bit older than him, her mother Mrs. Hempstock and her grandmother old Mrs. Hempstoke. After opal miner's suicide strange things start to happen. Someone begins leaving money for people in weird ways. The narrator found himself choking on the shilling when he woke up the next morning. There is the start of the magic events in this story. The Hempstoks are mysterious persons, their farm isn't simple is a border between our world and the old world. Also, the pond at the end of the farm is an ancient ocean, The story is full of monsters and fairies and magic. There are some dark moments and a twist of tragedy. The end of the story remains open.