Neil Gaiman first read the last novel by his dear friend Sir Terry Pratchett flying back to the States from Pratchett’s funeral. “It may have been the best and worst place and way to read it,”says Gaiman. “It was very strange for me because Terry had been talking to me about it for years.”
Gaiman is the award-winning author of graphic novels, books for children and adults, including the comic series The Sandman, Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, as well as scripts for film and TV. Pratchett was the prolific novelist of adult and children’s books, awarded an OBE and a knighthood, whose Discworld books — so-called because they are set in a fictional universe of a flat
