There's a guy, he grew up on the titular lane. There is a duck pond out back of the farm house at the end of the lane. There was a girl there that referred to the duck pond as her ocean.
Guy has childhood memories he has forgotten. He suddenly remembers EVERYTHING now that hes back to the place of his childhood. The ocean at the end of the lane.
Ch 1 pg 8
He remembers a 7th birthday no one came to and a kitten that died.
Ch 2 pg 13
The guy that had the accident with the kitten was renting a room at the guys house when he was a boy. He later killed himself in their car. This is how the guy that was then a boy got to hang out with Lettie, the girl in the farmhouse at the end of the lane with the duck pond she calls an ocean, and her mom and grandma.
I think Lettie and "family" have some sort of telepathical powers.
Ch 3 pg 25
Boy has a dream where he's choking. He wakes up to find a coin in his throat. He goes down to the end of the lane where Lettie explains that it's just someone trying to give people money and he doesn't need to worry about it and she will protect him.
Her maturity and confidence is alarming to boy. He asks her how old she is and she says eleven. Then in a nightvalian sort of way he asks how long she has been eleven and it gave me so much joy.
The ladies at the farm house at end of the lane seem to know what the problem is and what to do about it.
Lettie is going to go solve the problem. She wants to bring boy along. Her "mom" likes the idea. Her "grandma " not so much. But she doesn't stop her from taking him with. She just says don't say i didn't warn you.
Ch 4
Boy and Lettie go into the words and into what I'm gonna assume is something like the fairy rhelm and they fight a spirit monster thing. It goes well and the thing is bound so it can't hurt our w0rld anymore but boy let go of girls hand during the fight and in that moment he felt a stabbing pain in his foot and I expect that will have negative consequences in the future.
Also the way lettie talks it's very much like she's some sort of immortal being and not a person, in case anyone reading this thinks she's a normal little girl.
Ch 5
The stabbing pain immediately pays off as the boy pulls a worm out of it. Or most of a worm anyway. Probably still some in there and it'll probably continue to be a problem.
Ch 6
Boy (does boy have a name?) Is told by his mom she has a job now and a woman named Ursula will be looking after them. She is the worm that was in his foot. This is very bad and it's all his fault. Ursula doesn't let him leave their property so he can't talk to lettie about her.
Ch 7
Boy goes on a bit of a hunger strike. When his father demands he eats the food Ursula made he says he won't cause she's not a person, she's a monster. Then he runs to the bathroom and locks the door and his father kicks the door down and tries to drown him
Ch 8
Boy has been locked in his room. He decides to make a break for it. He is kinda lost and cold and wet and tired and alone and Ursula finds him and she's flying. Also, pretty sure she had sex with his dad.
He is pretty hopeless. But it turns out he has made it to the hampstocks land and lettie comes to save the day.
Ch 9
Lettie and family pull some jedi mind trick and convince boy's parents that boy is here for a run of the mill sleepover. The only reason they came down the lane was to bring boy his toothbrush.
Ch 10
Lettie and boy go back to his house to deal with the Ursula situation. The basic idea is that Lettie offers to send Ursula home in a painless manner. It doesn't really work out and Ursula runs away.
Ch 11
They find Ursula pretty easy cause lettie has trapped her here. Lettie informs Ursula that the cleaners have been called. Thus motivates Ursula to take lettie up on her offer to go back home through her door, which used to be in boys foot. Problem, the door doesn't work. Some part of it is still in boy. Ursula has a solution, she's gonna rip his heart out and somehow that will allow her to go home. It's around then that the cleaners show up. They're vaguely bird like shady beings and they tear Ursula apart.
But they are not satisfied. They need to clean up the part of Ursula that's in boy.
Lettie take boy to a fairy ring where he will be safe from the cleaners.
Ch 12
Boy stays in the fairy rings despite the shadow monster impersonating many different people trying to lure him out.
Ch 13
Lettie shows up with a bucket. They do some magic and they are in the pond by her house. Its trippy AF!!!!!
Back at the house he eats schpehards pie and spotted dick and all is well.
Except that Lettie isn't so sure they can deal with the shadow bird things. Her mom is though and that makes boy feel ok.
Ch 14
The shadow bird things start doing bad things like eating oak trees and stars and what not. Seeing this, boy has the sudden desire to sacrifice himself so they will stop. But tillie jumps on him to protect him and she dies. Grandma comes out, in a way that reminded me of dr who, and tells the shadow birds that they have violated sacred treaties by attacking Tillie and what not and if they know what's good for them they'll go back home. It kinda feels like an empty threat but it works and they gtfo. Grandma takes tillie to the ocean and explains she ain't really dead, but she needs some time in the ocean and she'll return when she's ready.
Ch 15
Boy goes home and just sorta forgets everything that just happened. He bel8ves lettie went to Australia to be with her dad.
Ch 16
