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.

Reviews

This is an impressive debut by Nadine Wild-Palmer… She has a tremendous imagination – I loved meeting the weird and wonderful creatures in this fantasy land

Alex O’Connell, The Times, Children's Book of the Week

This hugely imaginative debut, with a brilliantly resourceful heroine, is one to look out for

Fiona Noble, The Bookseller

The Tunnels Below is a zippy and captivating read, full of cliffhanger chapter endings and inventive fantasy elements. Reminiscent of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Cecilia is pulled into a dreamlike world, with quirky twists and turns around every corner. Nadine Wild-Palmer’s imagination is big and surprising and a joy to enter.

BookTrust

A crazy adventure that skirts scary but is full of beautiful moments

Khadija Osman, Scoop Magazine

A compelling-sounding debut fantasy

Sam Read's Books Blog

Weird and wonderful creatures in The Tunnels Below… Set in an underground world where a magical community exists… it will change your thinking of the London Underground forever

Angels and Urchins

Eerie and clever this story is reminiscent of The Midnight Hour

Sue and Pakka's blog

A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of friendship and the importance of self-belief, with a really amazing atmosphere that will keep you gripped with every page turn

ReadItDaddy (blog)

Loved the storyline and the characters!

Independent Book Reviews (blog)

A brilliantly imagined other-world adventure that pitches a young girl into a very strange place, and up against a dangerous tyrant, The Tunnels Below is an impressive debut.

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