Splendid! I loved this book and I’m going to try to track down the BBC 2 series it was based on (also written by Neil Gaiman). Croup and Vandemar are hilarious and terrifying.

This book kind of reminded me of the Montmorency books by Eleanor Updale. (Liar Thief Gentleman? being the first one) I would recommend them if you like this.

It also had echoes of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—a clueless main character gets swept up in a funny/scary world beyond what he was previously aware of.