Day Fourteen

Day 14 – Favourite book of your favourite writer

Well that would be Neverwhere, I just adored it. Very, very inventive writing from one of the very best writers of fantasy fiction .. but it's not the sort of stuff that addles your brain and makes you turn the book around to see if you've been reading it upside down for the last half hour. It's clever and imaginative but also really, really readable and also enormous fun.

Synopsis: 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, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for 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 yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, 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 below the streets of his native city.