![]() ![]() ![]() Gaiman's urban fantasy takes the metropolis of London and rebuilds it into a unique realm of mythology, one that will leave you wondering what's really happening, a half-glance out of sight, the next time you find yourself wandering around the city. Now invisible and forgotten by London Above, Richard and Door-along with the trickster Marquis de Carabas and the stoic Hunter-must travel across Night's Bridge, seek an audience at the Earl's court, and acquire a rare key from the Black Friars for the angel Islington if either of them has a hope of returning to their former lives. It's a world that Richard Mayhew, a Scottish expatriate to the Big Smoke, slips into when he helps Door, a young woman on the run from unstoppable assassins who have killed her entire family. Neverwhere is a tale of London-not the city you know, but the London Below, a city unseen by the majority yet no less real, populated by the ignored, lost, and forgotten. ![]()
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