![]() He meets Lettie following some dark happenings at home, which seem a tipping point with a barely coping father, struggling in reduced circumstances after the death of his wife and a quarrelsome sister. Recalling playing with young Lettie, who convinced him that adjacent duck pond was an ocean the past, everything, floods back. ![]() He revisits the neighbouring farmhouse at the end of the lane, so old that it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, home to the unlikely dynasty of the Hempstock women. It is a day for remembering the dead for the man attending his father’s funeral, returning to his childhood home of some 40 years earlier and feeling like he is “pretending to be an adult”. It would scare them” – Maurice Sendak (from the epigraph of Gaiman’s novel). ![]() But I knew I mustn’t let the adults know I knew. “I remember my own childhood vividly … I knew terrible things. ![]()
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