Publication Date: 11th October 2021
Published by The Patcham Press
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Womens Fiction
First and foremost I must thank blog tour organiser Rachel Gilbey of Rachel's Random Resources for the invitation to be part of this tour. I've not participated in many tours this year due to outside pressures of my day job and various other factors, but this title popped out at me and I knew I just had to review this book and be part of the tour. It is my honour to be promoting this on publication day, and I wish Deirdre every success with this page turner.
Book Description:
London. A January night. Commuters surge into the Underground. Ellen
Randall recognises a man standing close to the platform edge: Matt
Leyton, her sister Rosanna’s married lover. The man who’s playing a game as old
as time. A red-hot flash of uncontrollable anger propels Ellen to his side. The
train approaches. Seconds later, Matt has gone.
Carl Teviot is convinced Ellen isn’t a killer, even
though he’s only just met her – or rather, found her, huddled in a sleeping bag
in an abandoned Tube station: a ghost station. He can’t leave her there, alone,
and in danger.
But rescuing her from the tunnel is only the beginning…
My Thoughts:
The opening chapter of this book certainly grabs your attention with our main character Ellen having a sudden rush of adrenalin when she spots her sister's married lover on the platform of the tube station. The consequences of her spur of the moment actions affect her - and others - deeply for some time to come. Ellen struggles to deal with her conscience but support comes in the unlikely form of stranger Carl, an urban explorer who finds her hiding away in an abandoned space below the streets of London. His gut feeling is that she isn't really the bad person she sees herself and finds himself going above and beyond to help Ellen find her way back to the life she deserves. In the meantime someone else seems to know what Ellen has done as she starts receiving messages threatening to expose her if she doesn't come clean herself.
Ellen's sister Rosie is completely unaware of the demons Ellen is fighting, she has a dilemma of her own to deal with and takes herself off to stay with friends in an attempt to sort her life out. The two sisters were orphaned at an early age and have supported each other ever since in all aspects of their lives, but suddenly find themselves needing to be independent in order to come to terms with what life has thrown at them this time.
To say I enjoyed this book seems so wrong as it feels like I am saying I enjoyed the trials and tribulations the three main individuals were going through. I feel the author handled some difficult issues very sensitively and in a confident manner. There perhaps should be some trigger warnings as there are some sections of the story which could be upsetting for some people. Without giving too much away I found myself sympathising with characters I didn't expect to and wanting to know more about others. I particularly liked the side story involving Ellen's work colleagues which gave an interesting view of how Ellen fitted in at work and how people can (mis)interpret our personalities from how we portray ourselves in our professional roles.
I would be selective who I would recommend this book to due to the content but personally I found it to be an engrossing, sensitive read which took several turns I wasn't expecting and kept me invested in the story with well-timed twists throughout. My sincere thanks again to Rachel for giving me the opportunity to feature this book on my page in return for my honest review as part of the blog tour.
Buy yourself a copy here:
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Tunnel-Deirdre-Palmer-ebook/dp/B09BZW8GXS/
US - https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Tunnel-Deirdre-Palmer-ebook/dp/B09BZW8GXS/
About the Author:
Deirdre lives in Brighton, on the south
coast of England. She writes women’s and psychological fiction under her own
name, and as Zara Thorne. Becoming an author was a childhood dream, although
she didn’t have much of a clue as to what it meant. But fast forward several
years – okay, many years – and the dream showed signs of becoming reality. She
entered the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition, twice, and came fourth, twice. So
there was the incentive to complete her first novel, Remarkable Things, which was published by Crooked Cat and
shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award. The Girl in the Tunnel is Deirdre’s 14th
book.
You can find Dierdre on social media at the following addresses:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deirdre.palmer.735
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DLPalmer_Writer
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3cxx8bE
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