Paperback, 400 pages
Published Nov. 2, 2000 by Headline Book Publishing.
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. This small kindness propels him into a dark world he never dreamed existed. He must learn to survive in London Below, in a world of perpetual shadows and darkness, filled with monsters and saints, murderers and angels. He must survive if he is ever to return to the London that he knew."
Of all the brilliant books Gaiman has written, this is still the best in my opinion. The world, as well as the characters inhabiting it, is fascinatingly detailed; his writing warm and razor-sharp; the story develops fast but at an even, relaxed pace.
