Out of the Tunnel

by Rachel North | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 1905548753 Global Overview for this book
Registered by dododumpling of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on 10/14/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, October 14, 2010
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.

A remarkable story – you can’t help but wonder why some people have to deal with so many difficult experiences in their lives. What really touched me was Rachel’s description of the work of the emergency services on 7 July – as she said, she escaped from the tunnel as quickly as she could. They went back, again and again, to help the injured and dying, with no thoughts for their own safety.

Passed on to my mum as I think she might find it an interesting read.

Journal Entry 2 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 19, 2011
'Out of the Tunnel' is the story of Rachel North who was on an underground train on 7th July 2005 when a suicide bomb was detonated. For the second time around Rachel is subjected to post traumatic stress disorder (the first time followed an horrific rape in her own home which left her for dead.) Using her experience from that attack she is able to help her fellow survivors and begin the long process of recovery.
At times I found this book quite difficult to read emotionally and marvelled at the survivors ability to pick up the threads of their lives and try to act as normal as possible.

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