Very well-written collaboration on a very English apocalypse, wherein a bunch of kids and a bunch of wittery adults and a couple of disaffected supernatural entities find a way to muddle through the end of days. It's funny and clever - Pestilence being replaced by Pollution as a Horseman of the Apocalypse after the advent of antibiotics made me laugh and wince at the same time, because of course we have, so of course it did. But the best parts for me were the bits with the children, who have a pre-teen gang complete with hellhound and an obstreperous desire to argue with each other about the best way to fill up a summer afternoon.

While I've read some of Gaiman I'm very familiar with Pratchett, and his humanising influence, his sense of goodness and of the ridiculous, comes through loud and clear. (It was no surprise, reading the interviews at the end of this edition, that he was mostly responsible for the kid-sections. Not just the dialogue, but the idea of shape affecting thought re the hellhound, otherwise known as Dog.)

This is my last read of 2017. Let's hope it's a good omen for the next year - reading and otherwise!