Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from Neil Gaiman the bestselling & prizewinning author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane & American Gods Wired called it 'the sort of book Terry Pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with Frank Kafka' This is a must-read for all those who loved Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell or the magical world of JK Rowling Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of A city of monsters & saints murderers & angels & pale girls in black velvet Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe & predictable life & into a world that is at once eerily familiar & yet utterly bizarre There's a girl named Door an Angel called Islington an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train a Beast in a labyrinth & dangers & delights beyond imagining & Richard who only wants to go home is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city
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