After reading I was confused as to why this was marketed as a novel for adults. It could very well be a young adult novel. The protagonists are children, and it’s their journey. There is a suggestion of the father being unfaithful to the wife, but nothing graphic, and something young adults should be able to understand.
After watching the interview with Neil Gaiman in class, I think I have figured out why. It’s because he wants to bring the memory of childhood back to adults. Throughout the book there are many references of childhood versus adulthood. Time in general is a major theme. In the beginning we get to know the adult narrator, how his childhood home is no longer there, and in the end we learn that the belief that Lettie went to Australia isn’t exactly true. Lettie herself is of an unknown age, and Ursula who claims to have been around before the Earth was even created.
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