num_pages: 287
description: Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, Knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet, this is the London of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he ever wanted to about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre.There's a girl named Door and people who are trying to kill her. There's an Angel called Islington who lives in a candle-lit hall and Old Bailey who lives among the rooftops. There are intelligent rats and Rat Speakers, and an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of an Underground train. A bridge through the night guards the perilous way to Knightsbridge, there are people in the sewers, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining.And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him down here, below the streets of his native city - Neverwhere.
language: English
title: Neverwhere
titlecomplete: Neverwhere
characters: Mr. Croup, Richard Mayhew, Old Bailey, Hunter, Door, Mr. Vandemar, Jessica Bartram, Islington, Marquis de Carabas
genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 513489
places: Scotland, United Kingdom, London, England, England
series: London Below,  The World of Neverwhere
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Prix Julia Verlanger
publisher: BBC Books