![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And for Richard Mayhew, it’s just the beginning. Here is London Below, the city of people who have fallen between the cracks. It is strangely familiar yet utterly bizarre. This act of kindness leads him to a place filled with murderers and angels, pale girls in black velvet, a Beast in a labyrinth and an Earl who holds Court in a tube train. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. When Richard Mayhew stops to help a girl he finds bleeding in the street, his unremarkable life changes in an instant. Neil Gaiman, quote from Neverwhere Copy text Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. Under the streets of London lies a world most people could never dream of. Anything that leads to possibilities’ NEIL GAIMAN ‘Much too clever to be caught in the net of a single interpretation’ PHILIP PULLMANĪCCLAIMED BBC RADIO 4 DRAMATISATION WITH ALL-STAR CAST INCLUDING JAMES MCAVOY, NATALIE DORMER, DAVID HAREWOOD, SOPHIE OKONEDO AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ‘It’s virtually impossible to read more than ten words by Neil Gaiman and not wish he would tell you the rest of the story’ OBSERVER Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwherea London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Gaiman describes the indescribable’ SUSANNA CLARKE THE EXTRAORDINARY FIRST NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF STORYTELLING ![]()
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