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The Tunnels Below

Book Synopsis

On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of the Corvus.

A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of friendship and the importance of self-belief by debut novelist Nadine Wild-Palmer.

Our Review Panel says...

The Tunnels Below recounts the exciting tale of Cecilia, whose twelfth birthday turns out to be far more adventurous than she had ever dreamt it would be. After having received her birthday gifts, Cecilia sets off with her family for a day out in her home city of London. As they exit the underground train, she realises that she has left her sister’s present to her, an abnormally large and beautiful marble, in the train carriage. As Cecilia darts back on to the empty train to retrieve the gift, the doors close and she is swept away from her family deep into the dark tunnels of the underground. The train does not stop for a long time but when it does the terrified girl finds herself stepping out onto an unfamiliar, pitch-black platform and is swiftly abandoned by the train which had transported her there…

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