It’s about getting lost in the cracks of society….a man falls into the Neverwhere side of life, and his subsequent adventure there….it’s where the “non-existant” people live, the ones no one cares about.

He spends the entire story trying to get back to the “real” world above. (nah – can’t tell you the end!)

Neverwhere’s protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman’s humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. –Nona Vero —

I read that book earlier this year, and i never figured out the theme of it.

Honestly, I’m not so sure it has one.

That’s my favorite book..but I’ve been out of school for years and I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “theme”. Could you be more specific?

The theme is “fear of the unknown”