<Tr> <Th> Award </Th> <Td> Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2014) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 9780062255655 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman . The work was first published on 18 June 2013 through William Morrow and Company and follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier . </P> <P> Themes in The Ocean at the End of the Lane include the search for self - identity and the "disconnect between childhood and adulthood". </P>

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