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"In the terror of July 7th Rachel North found her own capacity for courage and discovered that she had extraordinary gifts as a writer, not the least of which is her powerful honestly." Fergal Keane In the early hours of a warm summer night in 2002, Rachel North was viciously attacked and raped in her own home. She was left for deal, but miraculously survived the horrific assault only to battle with severe traumatic shock symptoms in the aftermath. Barely recovered from the ordeal and the trial that saw her attacker finally jailed, Rachel was, by dreadful coincidence, reading a magazine story about her rape when Germaine Lindsay detonated his bomb in her carriage at King's Cross, on 7 July 2005. Informed by her past experience of trauma, Rachel was able to begin the long process of recovery from the horror of that day and used her past experience to help her fellow survivors. She set up a support group, King's Cross United, and found therapy in writing about her thoughts and feelings in the weeks that followed. This book is the result.Out of the Tunnel is the emotional and inspirational story of one woman's incredible experiences, her battle with, and victory over post-traumatic stress disorder first time round, and her remarkable determination to use that experience to bring herself and her co-survivors out of the wreckage of the suicide-bombed underground train.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Moving and courageous,
By Leonora351 (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Out of the Tunnel (Paperback)
I first came across Rachel North via the blog she started writing after the events of 7 July. As a fellow Londoner, her experiences touched a chord with me. It could just as easily have been me or any one of my friends and family caught up in that horror. Rachel has brought the same vividness and honesty to telling her story in this book as she does to her blog writing. To learn that she had also suffered a rape attack a few years earlier only increased my admiration for her strength and courage. This is the story of the emotional and physical survival of an ordinary Londoner caught up in the kind of violent events we hear about too often on the news and pray never touch us. She does not dwell on the gruesome details, but tells us about the efforts and daily struggle it took to put her and others involved in the London bombings on the road to recovery. As she says towards the end, 'Other voices in the dark can help you carry on, and to continue your journey afterwards.'
I hope Rachel will continue to write in the same generous spirit.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Gritty, yet compelling, and ultimately uplifting,
By Jim (West Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Out of the Tunnel (Paperback)
While the subject matter in this autobiography is, at times, gruelling in the extreme, the power of North's writing and the force of her narrative make this an extremely compelling read. The accounts of the two attacks are honest, detailed, and harrowing, but North's insight into and belief in the strength of human nature shine through.
In one passage, North recounts writing a feature for the Sunday Times: "It was very hard to write. Not chewing-the-pencil-can't-think-what-to-say difficult, I mean that it made me cry. It hurt to write.... But the words flowed almost effortlessly; in that sense it was not hard to write at all." This is a perfect reflection of the experience of reading this book: at times it is painful to share in the traumatic experiences being described, yet the words flow from the page in such a way that it is almost impossible to stop. Ultimately, this is an uplifting story. North chronicles the progression through PTSD toward recovery and the power gained through working in the support group she established. Both by her argument and her example, she leaves the reader with the sense that the human spirit is simply too strong to be defeated by violence. She maintains that she is "just an ordinary person," and while she may not be that different from any of the rest of us, she is clearly far from that. Perhaps the final message of this book is that we all have the capacity to be extraordinary. A highly recommended read.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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No Sympathy Needed Here,
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This review is from: Out of the Tunnel (Paperback)
Rachel North is a woman to feel sorry for. Three years after being the near-dead victim of a horrific rape, she found herself in a tube carriage, on 7th July 2005. The only thing which saved her from death was the crush of passengers between her and the suicide bomber a few feet away.
You would expect her story to make you cry, and feel immense pity. I didn't. But I did find myself utterly gripped from the moment I started reading. I was carried along by this extraordinary woman's ability to tell a story, by wanting to know what would happen next - despite knowing most of it already. And far from feeling pity I felt admiration, and was inspired. She has felt anger, of course she has. And despair, and fear, and sick dread. But she has never drawn the conclusion that Islam is to blame, and the last thing she wants is to fear her neighbours. And despite the pull of pessimism, she tries to focus on the people in the dark. Those fellow tube passengers who never even looked at each other until they faced that horror together and held each other's hands. I consumed Out of the Tunnel eagerly, and what I got was an honest, touching and beautifully-written account, not just of suffering but of how to keep going and why, even if you have had your life threatened twice by random strangers, it's still worth trusting your fellow man.
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