After reading a few of Gaiman's works, I can safely say I am a lifetime fan. While I wasn't necessarily as swept away in this story line, as I was in Neverwhere, there is just no denying this author has a true gift. His craft of words is masterful.
This book is both a dream and a nightmare. It is fantasy and reality. It is being a child and also an adult. He perfectly creates a sense of nostalgia and wonder.

"Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans."