The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman: “I read Sandie Sees It Through, another of my mother's books. (Text spells it 'Sandie'; this matches the real 1939 girls'-school story 'Sadie Sees It Through' by Ethel Talbot, consistent with the surrounding reference to the narrator's mother's own childhood books from the 1930s/1940s.)”