Book Synopsis:
Polly, 28, lives in London with her ‘perfect-on-paper’ boyfriend. She works a dead end job on a free London paper… life as she knows it is dull. But her banal existence is turned upside down late one drunken night on her way home, after a chance encounter with a man on a packed tube train. The chemistry between them is electric and on impulse, they kiss, giving in to their carnal desires. But it’s over in an instant, and Polly is left shell-shocked as he walks away without even telling her his name.
Now obsessed with this beautiful stranger, Polly begins a frantic online search, and finally discovers more about tubing , an underground phenomenon in which total strangers set up illicit, silent, sexual meetings on busy commuter tube trains. In the process, she manages to track him down and he slowly lures her into his murky world, setting up encounters with different men via Twitter.
At first she thinks she can keep it separate from the rest of her life, but things soon spiral out of control.
By chance she spots him on a packed tube train with a young, pretty blonde. Seething with jealousy, she watches them together. But something isn’t right and a horrific turn of events make Polly realise not only how foolish she has been, but how much danger she is in…
Can she get out before it s too late?
Tubing is out now in ebook and paperback now. The ebook is currently only £1.99 and you can purchase a copy of both here.
My Review:
Tubing is one of the most original, addictive thrillers that I have read. It had me wondering whether it was a real thing, I definitely won’t travel on the tube the same way again!
I wasn’t sure if I liked the main character Polly, she had a relationship most people would dream of but wants more than it can offer her. She came across as being quite a silly, spoilt little girl who liked to pretend she was the victim when she quite clearly wasn’t! There were definitely times in the book that I wanted to shake her and ask her what on earth she was doing.
There was some quite risqué action in the book which might not be to everyone’s taste. It isn’t graphically described though and helps to add a lot to the tension especially in the first part of the book as you wonder if this will be the time they get caught.
The action is quite fast paced at times, getting faster and faster as Polly gets drawn deeper into the seedy life of tubing and her ‘perfect stranger’. I found I couldn’t put the book down, promising myselfmyself one more chapter’ than reading long into the night.
The reader is promised a twist from the blurb but despite this it still took me by surprise. My mind had been swirling with possibilities and it wasn’t any of the ideas I had thought of which I thought was skillfully done.
This is the author’s debut book and I look forward to reading more from her in the future. If you like fast paced, original and risqué thrillers then you’ll love this book. For me I though it was similar to The Girl Before so if you liked that book, I think you’ll enjoy this one.
Huge thanks to Anna from Red Door Publishing for my copy of this book and for inviting me onto the blog tour.
About The Author:
K.A. McKeagney studied psychology in Bristol before completing a Masters degree in creative writing at Brunel. She won the Curtis Brown prize for her dissertation, which formed the basis of her first novel Tubing. She has worked in London as a health editor writing consumer information as well as for medical journals. Her writing has been commended by the British Medical Association (BMA) patient information awards.
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Fab review!
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