“Neverwhere for me was this glorious vehicle where I could talk about huge serious things and have a ridiculous amount of fun on the way. He told the Southbank audience: “When Lenny Henry and I came up with the original idea for Neverwhere almost 25 years ago, what attracted us was the idea that we could talk about the homeless, talk about the dispossessed, talk about the people who fall through the cracks, and do it in a way that was exciting and fun and interesting and also relevant and might change people’s heads. Under the latter’s auspices, he has visited refugee camps in the Middle East and spoken to people displaced by the conflict in Syria. Gaiman said that he had been prompted to write the sequel both by the changes in the world over the past 20 years and his work with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Gaiman has hinted previously that he would write a sequel and the FAQs on his website already indicate a title: The Seven Sisters.īut at an event at London’s Southbank Centre this week, Gaiman closed the show by announcing – to rapturous applause – that he’s “a solid three chapters” into the novel and confirmed: “So that will be the next book.” The story has also been adapted for the stage several times. In 2005, it was turned into a comic book by writer Mike Carey and artist Glenn Fabry and in 2013, a BBC radio adaptation with Dirk Maggs at the tiller was broadcast. Beginning life as a BBC TV series in 1996, Gaiman released a novelisation of his own script later that same year. The Neverwhere story is perhaps Gaiman’s most various work.
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