Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness proprels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness,...
more Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness proprels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
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The character of Richard goes through dynamic changes in his life. As he reflects on them, he realizes that he can do more good in a world he never knew existed than in the one he grew up in. He makes changes in his life to give back to the world. That is a lesson we all need to learn!! We should all find that place in life we can make a POSITIVE difference and act on it!!
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