Wollery, the gardener, discovers a bottle of old coins. The next day, the narrator receives a letter in the mail informing him that he won 25 pounds through the Premium Bonds, and Mr. Later, when the narrator asks, his father insists that oceans can’t be the size of a pond. There’s a dead fish on the water’s surface, and Lettie cuts the fish open and extracts a sixpence from it. Lettie then takes the narrator out to the duck pond, which she calls the ocean-according to Lettie, she and her family traveled across it when she was a baby. Hempstock seem to know all about the opal miner’s death.
At the farmhouse, Lettie gives the narrator a bowl of porridge. A girl named Lettie appears and offers to take the narrator so he’ll be out of the way of the police. When they find the car, they discover that the opal miner committed suicide inside it. The narrator’s father puts peanut butter on disappointingly burnt toast for the narrator, and they head down the lane with a police officer. The narrator’s father receives a call from the police: the stolen car was found at the end of the lane. But when the narrator goes to get it from the car, he finds that the car is gone. On the first day of the spring holidays, the narrator goes downstairs, excited for the SMASH! comic his father brought home. His taxi runs Fluffy over, and to replace the kitten, the opal miner gives the narrator a mean tomcat named Monster. He names the kitten Fluffy and they become best friends-until the opal miner, a new tenant, arrives. After this, the narrator immerses himself in the books he receives and is thrilled when his father brings home a black kitten. Not long after, the narrator celebrates his seventh birthday-but no one comes to his party. He and his sister fight about whether the door stays open at night (the narrator is terrified of the dark). The narrator is sad because the room is special to him, but he moves into his little sister’s bedroom. When the narrator is six years old, his parents fall on hard times to make money, they rent out the narrator’s bedroom. As the narrator sits by this pond, he remembers that Lettie used to call it her “ ocean.” Then, suddenly, the narrator remembers everything.
Hempstock, Lettie’s mother, though she looks more like Lettie’s grandmother, Old Mrs. He greets the elderly woman in the farmhouse-she must be Mrs.
He remembers that his friend Lettie lived here until she went to Australia. The narrator drives down the lane and comes to the farm at the end.
The house that’s currently standing is the new house his parents built it when the narrator was a teenager, after they knocked down their rambling old house. The adult narrator drives away from a funeral service and finds himself in front of the house where he grew up.
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