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Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

by Neil Gaiman

A restored edition of Gaiman’s London-below fantasy

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author

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A restored edition of Gaiman’s London-below fantasy

This edition brings together Neil Gaiman’s preferred text of Neverwhere, restoring scenes omitted from earlier U.S. and U.K. versions and adding the related tale “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” The novel begins with Richard Mayhew, an ordinary London businessman whose life shifts when he enters Neverwhere, a hidden realm beneath familiar reality. His attempt to return to London Above becomes bound up with a struggle against a destructive force threatening that underworld. The book’s central contrast lies between everyday city life and a shadowed, secret counterpart with its own dangers and stakes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of contemporary and urban fantasy
  • Fans of hidden-world stories set alongside modern city life
  • Readers interested in an expanded, author-preferred edition

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Hidden worldsLondonReality and the unseenUnderworld conflictReturn and belonging

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Book overview

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"--and including the special "Neverwhere" tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."

Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of this major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now, this author's preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these versions and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books.

Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he is plunged through the cracks of reality into a world of shadows and darkness--the Neverwhere. If he is ever to return to the London Above, Richard must join the battle to save this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it.

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