Gillossen a écrit :Neil Gaiman présente ce livre comme "une fable qui refaçonne la fantasy moderne."

It began for our narrator forty years ago when he was seven: the lodger stole the family's car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and a menace unleashed -- within his family, and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

Witch a écrit :Ne plus rien dire et préférer écouter Gaiman, qui a d'ailleurs fait une très chouette lecture du roman à venir "The Ocean at the End of the Lane"