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If you pay them any attention, Richard, They’ll walk all over you.

The person was face down, and enveloped in bulky clothes Jessica took his arm and tugged him toward her.

Being the fine gentleman that he is – and probably controlled by a bit of fate as well – Richard Mayhew leaves Jessica as he attends to the injured girl. However all of this is turned up on its ear when an injured girl mysteriously appears out of a solid brick wall. He has a fiancée, Jessica, a job that he is content in (as much as one can be content in an office job), and friends. Neverwhere tells the story of one Richard Mayhew, a Scottish boy, living in London, and currently very much stuck in the rut of life. I haven’t seen the TV show, and I’m not as vehemently against it as you might think, but I like my books and my TV to remain separate (except when it comes to Star Wars and Star Trek… shut up!). But since I didn’t know that at the time, it doesn’t count, and thus I will attempt for this review (and, in reality, everywhere else too), attempt to ignore the fact this book did not start life out as a book.ĭevised by Nail Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi Humphreys, there were six episodes, each at 30 minutes, airing originally on BBC Two in 1996. That might sound like I have a measure of distaste for adaptations, and you would be right. I was totally mystified, baffled and downright confused when I hit up Wikipedia to find that Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman, a book that I had just finished and thoroughly enjoyed, was nothing more than an adaptation of a television series.