Neverwhere: A Novel

Neil Gaiman

Harper Collins, 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.

What people are saying

Excellent

User Review  - Shay E. - Overstock.com

Neil Gaiman is by far my favorite author.This is definitely one of his more interesting novels and I am so excited to own it for myself. If you like deeprooted storyline and mind blowing plots then this is the book for you!

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - Sullywriter - LibraryThing

I enjoy watching zombie movies and The Walking Dead so I thought I'd try this chronicle of a zombie apocalypse. It's clever and imaginative, frequently gripping and gruesome but I guess prefer watching zombie apocalypses to reading about them.

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

Popular passages

Page 100 - Antrim felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. He was no stranger to poverty himself, and he knew how thin the shield could be that kept destitution at bay.

Page 154 - Les opened his mouth as if he were going to say something and then closed it and nodded and walked away.

Page 9 - He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile...

Page 243 - You're talking to yourself. And you know what they say about people who talk to themselves. It's just that you're starting to edge a little closer to sanity, now.

Page 165 - He was not sure that the same could be said for the rest of the...

Page 71 - ... in the sub-cellar, a huge room in which a hundred and twenty years of hospital waste had accumulated, been abandoned, and, eventually, forgotten; and it was here that Mr.

Page 160 - I don't know how you could even bring yourself to think such a thing.

Page 299 - It was about five feet long, from the tip of the blade to the end of the haft. Hunter touched it, almost fearfully, as if it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. "You sold Door out for a spear,

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Neverwhere: A Novel
• Author: Neil Gaiman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2003
• ISBN: 0060557818, 9780060557812
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / General