Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

Oct 2007 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Neil Gaiman

About this audiobook

National Bestseller

Selected as one of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s wildly successful first novel featuring his new Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.”

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, 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.

“A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares” (San Diego Union-Tribune), Neil Gaiman’s first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy, and a perennial favorite of readers everywhere.

“Delightful ... inventively horrific.”

—USA Today

Ratings and reviews

The book is wonderful. I really love it. what I don't love, are the drums and flutes that play before and during the first sentence of a chapter. It is utterly annoying, please stop putting that into the audio... I listen to books while I work so, I listen to chapter after chapter. Drums and flutes are the last thing I wanna strain to hear over for the words.

One of my favorite stories, well obviously Sandman is MY number 1 favorite, of all time... Of his novels though, I love it, I say this everytime I read a new story by him... I just love getting lost in the pages for however long it takes me 2 read, or listen too. That's never very long & I'm always disappointed when I finish them, because I'd like them to continue forever!

It's in a class of its own! I search endlessly for a book of the same caliber. American Gods comes close, but nothing captures the subtle, but fully developed view of the world in the same lens of an alternate reality.

About the author

Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award winning author and creator of many beloved books, graphic novels, short stories, film, television and theatre for all ages. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. Neil has adapted many of his works to television series, including Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) and The Sandman. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College. For a lot more about his work, please visit: https://www.neilgaiman.com/