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Tunnel Vision (Paperback)

by Keith Lowe (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (6 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099416689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099416685
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 471,740 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Until now Andy's interest in the London Underground has been relatively harmless. Rachel, his long- suffering fiancee, has long since learnt to put up with it. But on the eve of their wedding, in a fit of last-minute nerves, Andy makes a drunken bet which threatens to ruin everything. His task is to travel to every tube station on the system in a single day. As part of the challenge his passport, his honeymoon tickets and his credit cards have been hidden in various places along the way - he has just 20 hours to find them all and complete his journey or the wedding is off. Tired, hungover, amazed at his own foolishness, he sets out on his journey at 5am with Brian, a drunk he picks up in Morden. He knows he can win his bet, and at first he seems to be making good progress. But then everything starts to go wrong...A touching and perceptive debut novel about why men have obsessions and women tolerate them.


About the Author

Keith Lowe was born in 1970. After studying English at Manchester University, he spent two years travelling before starting to work in publishing. He is currently a non-fiction editor at Cassell. He lives in north London.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A surprisingly entertaining read, 25 Jul 2003
By Darren Simons (Middlesex, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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The story here is your run of the mill problem... whilst in a drunken state, a soon-to-be-married guy (Andy) bets he can visit every underground station within a day. Sure enough, his "mate" takes him up on his offer and Andy starts the day without honeymoon tickets, passport, credit cards and lots of other useful things, only able to retrieve them should he win the best - oh yeah, and for winning the bet he can also get some collectable train tickets.

Needless to say his wife-to-be (Rachel) is thoroughly unimpressed, unable to fathom why the guy she believes she wants to spend the rest of her life with, is in fact... a TRAIN SPOTTER, is proud of it, and is willing to jeopardise everything over a stupid bet.

The story takes you through the day in question, with extra little challenges along the way, a tramp for Andy's company for most the journey, derailed trains, a gentle jog around North-west London, and a train timetable which isn't running quite to schedule.

The book seems to be remarkably well researched, and although there is another thread to the story about why Andy's mate wants Andy's marriage to end in failure, it's fairly weak and doesn't add much to the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which I didn't really expect to be as good as it was.

Will he make it or will he fail? Well, there's only one way to find out - read the book!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable (but unsophisticated) reading, 4 Nov 2002
This is a very enjoyable novel about a young tube-enthusiast on the eve of his wedding. He has had a bet with his "friend" that he can visit every single tube station on a single day and still make his 1 a.m. appointment at Waterloo Station where he is to take his Eurostar train with his fiancée to Paris, where they are to get married.

The problem is, his "friend" has forfeited the hero's passport, Eurostar tickets, honeymoon tickets and other things, and has placed them strategically around the London Underground, leaving clues at each place with the location of the next items, thereby making it much harder for our hero to follow a working route.

Accompanied by a tramp who has nothing better to do, our hero sets off from Morden station early in the morning, and begins to panic almost immediately.

This novel will appeal to everyone who travels frequently on the London Underground, and has been subjected to the various delays. It will be particularly appealing to tube-enthusiasts who will surely wonder whether they too would have taken the same route, given the obstacles. But don't let that put you off reading the book. It has just the right balance of humour and trainspottery to keep every Londoner amused.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A top read for all tube-travellers, 1 Oct 2001
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This is a great read - ideal for whiling away those long hours spent on the Northern Line every day. Lowe has created a superb character in his protagonist, Andy, who is torn between a bet with his tube-spotting mate to travel round the entire London Underground in 24 hrs - and his fiancee, Rachel, who has no interest whatsoever in all things 'tubular'. The tone is immediate, it is pacy and you just want to keep reading until the end. If you are a regular tube-traveller you will appreciate the characters that Andy observes on his journey - from the lost Japanese tourist to the hordes of foreign schoolchildren. Of course I won't tell you how it ends, but it doesn't disappoint.
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