![]() It was a rather unique experience for me to go into a popular book by a beloved author while having virtually no idea what to expect. I didn’t even know it was a TV series until I started this review, though clearly the book has overshadowed it. As a result, however, I actually knew very little about it. This was a book I purchased amongst a stack of others by the author, already being a big fan of his work. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is a 1996 urban fantasy novel, and the companion novelization of a BBC television series of the same name, also written by Gaiman. ![]() And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: neverwhere. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. ![]() Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. ![]() A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. ![]()
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