In the lead up to the Sydney Writer's Festival kicking off May 14 2012 I've decided to review novel that have fired up my imagination with imagery and concepts that have stayed with me long after the cover has been closed. Neil Gaimon's Neverwhere is one such novel. It is one of them novels that take you on a journey to a world you never knew existed. In this respect it's comparable to The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, where an everyday person is thrust into a world of magic wonder and colorful characters that leap off the page. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is introduced to the London he never knew existed when he rescue a young women who is being pursued by two men keen to remove the last vestiges of her family. It is this single act of kindness that catapults him out of his everyday life into a London that is both familar and utterly bizarre.
Like American Gods before it this novel introduces us to a world and characters which has co-existed alongside the rest of us unseen for countless generations, and once you experience this life for yourself then there's no going back no matter how much you may want to. If you have never experienced the imagination of Neil Gaimon, then this is a good place to start. You won't regret it I assure you!
Your in writing,
Jez Cartner
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