![]() Picking up the book in the shop, the blurb on the back hooked me. The version of this book that I was reading was a revised edition including element cut from earlier editions. It was good enough that it piqued my interest. I was already aware of Gaiman – although I haven’t read it yet, I have heard the radio play of Good Omens that he co-authored with Terry Pratchett – so when I heard there was also going to be a radio play of Neverwhere, I gave it a listen. And one of those was a curiosity-piquing book called Neverwhere, by an English fellow named Neil Gaiman. A little while back I had been on a mini shopping spree and came back with a few books, all ones I have heard recommended, but by authors I had not tried before. Not because I was bored of them, but because I felt like I needed to try something completely new. ![]() So I felt, as I sometimes do when reading longer book series, that I needed a change of pace from the Discworld. There’s London Above – that’s where you lived – and then there’s London Below – the Underside – inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. “Young man” he said, “understand this there are two Londons. ![]()
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