In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian era, lite moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall. Young Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester, but Victoria is cold and distant as the star she and Tristan see tall from the sky one evening, lor the prize ot Victoria's hand. Tristan vows to retrieve the star tor his beloved. It is an oath that sends the lovelorn swain over the town's ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining... From his groundbreaking graphic novel series Till: SANDMAN, his bestselling novels Neverwhere, American Gods and Anansi Boys to his dazzling collection of" short stories. fragile things, Neil Caiman's startling imagination has manifested itself in strange and sublimely inventive fiction. stardust is now a major film from Paramount Pictures.