tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30792847.post2017467780267503611..comments2023-06-15T12:11:39.884+01:00Comments on Little Miss Rachel: Out of the TunnelRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15452082852708707013noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30792847.post-76247427423447816262007-07-18T18:49:00.000+01:002007-07-18T18:49:00.000+01:00Thanks Rachel for your response. It is rather surr...Thanks Rachel for your response. It is rather surreal receiving commentary on my review from the author herself!<BR/><BR/>It didn't traumatise me too much (!); I am glad that I read it. Despite having only the most tenuous of connections with 7/7 (in that I live here and that my boyfriend was on the bakerloo line platform at Edgware Road and heard that thud of the explosion - although he didn't of course know what it was at the time) I have found myself reading and reading and trying to find out information. Mainly I suppose because it could have happened to me, and being as I am, like to find out things. <BR/><BR/>Out of the Tunnel provided some of those answers for me and also highlighted the area of PTSD of which I know/knew very little. Very useful information which I hope I will never need to know.<BR/><BR/>I look forward to your next book which I hope will be a novel!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15452082852708707013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30792847.post-8363086453042620202007-07-18T18:48:00.000+01:002007-07-18T18:48:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15452082852708707013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30792847.post-22324279008111283742007-07-18T18:06:00.000+01:002007-07-18T18:06:00.000+01:00Thank you ever so much for that Rachel. I am sorry...Thank you ever so much for that Rachel. I am sorry that the book is so disturbing - it is very brutal indeed for the first few chapters but it does calm down & cheer up in the end ( which was how it lived, really).<BR/><BR/> Borders made an initial mistake with categorisation and a directive has now gone out to all stores to put the book in the right place - biography/real lives, not self-help(!). It is infuritating that it was put in self help and I was really fed up when I found out! But apparently it happens all the time - last week, a book on Martin Luther, the 16th century German theologian was put into 'black history' by mistake <BR/>( they thought it was about Martin Luther King!)<BR/><BR/>It's interesting to read your flagging up as a blog reader about bits lifted from the blog. The whole thing was written from scratch, but there were some parts where I thought I can't really alter the way I wrote about it contemporaneously, it's authentic experience which I need to keep in - so I retyped what I wrote then in a few cases, rather than edit it and change it with hindsight. Ditto the description of being on the carriage, which was used in the Sunday Times and the book, but was taken from an original blog entry written as I was actually having a full scale flashback attack, so it was hyper-vivid and highly-detailed.<BR/><BR/>I am very grateful to you for reading and reviewing it, and I will put a link up on the blog sidebar to your review. And I hope that it doesn't disturb you too much - it's a hard balance between writing the truth, in a way that gets across how shocking it was and why PTSD developed - and actually traumatising people!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04807921540492728422noreply@blogger.com