# The Tunnels Below

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- Book: [The Tunnels Below](https://www.bookquiver.com/nadine-wild-palmer/the-tunnels-below) ([The Tunnels Below.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nadine-wild-palmer/the-tunnels-below.md))
- Authors: [Nadine Wild-Palmer](https://www.bookquiver.com/nadine-wild-palmer), [Ellen Shi](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellen-shi)
- Publisher: pushkin_press
- ISBN: 978-17-8269-223-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2019-04-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A twelfth birthday takes a very unexpected turn when a girl finds herself at the centre of a plot to save a community from the brutal Corvus ruleOn 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.