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Neverwhere:

A Novel
Front Cover
3097 Reviews
HarperCollins, Sep 2, 2003 - Fiction - 400 pages

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

  

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Very imaginative writing! - weRead
Clever premise, sloppy execution. - Goodreads
A cool, contemporary fantasy yarn. - weRead
I love Neil Gaiman's storytelling style. - Goodreads
I found the plot annoying. - Goodreads
It was good and I especially liked the ending. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Emily - Goodreads

If I have to force myself to read a fantasy book, I usually decide the book isn't worth it. Neverwhere held next to no appeal for me. Okay characters. Slow plodding plot. A world that could be ... Read full review

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User Review  - Matt - Goodreads

This is the first book I have read by Neil Gaiman and I am surprised that I have never read any of his books before. I enjoyed the book so much I instantly checked to see if there was a sequel. Of ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
6
Section 3
28
Section 4
55
Section 5
70
Section 6
107
Section 7
135
Section 8
150
Section 13
241
Section 14
254
Section 15
269
Section 16
285
Section 17
302
Section 18
318
Section 19
333
Section 20
335

Section 9
165
Section 10
182
Section 11
199
Section 12
226
Section 21
371
Section 22
375
Copyright

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Neverwhere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Guide to the BBC television series and novelisation. Includes image gallery, news, information, and biography
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, a dark fantasy book
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The first book I read in the fantasy realm was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Neverwhere is a land below London, a place “that exists entirely in a subterranean ...
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FANTASY The presence of Neil Gaiman’s name is going to have an army of vaguely gothic comic geeks turning out in their droves to buy it
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Neverwhere on Squidoo
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About the author (2003)

Neil Gaiman is the author of many highly acclaimed and award-winning books for children and adults, including the New York Times #1 bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning novel The Graveyard Book and the bestselling Coraline, Stardust, and Odd and the Frost Giants. He is also the author of the picture books Blueberry Girl and Instructions, illustrated by Charles Vess; The Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and Crazy Hair, illustrated by Dave McKean; and The Dangerous Alphabet, illustrated by Gris Grimly. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States.

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