TUNNEL OF MIRRORS
“Voices, faces, words, sounds, stories.
From the very first moment. From the very first time you open your eyes, they are all talking, telling stories, telling secrets, telling memories. So why, when at last you can make them understand you, are they so surprised that you remember, that you know?”
Reviews
“I have just finished this novel and feel, quite literally, breathless. It has been a long time since I have felt as swept up in the lives of a book’s characters as this one. From the moment you start reading, you are firmly on the side of strong-willed, ethereal Rachel as she grows up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family on New York’s Lower East Side. Meanwhile, Ciaran, being raised on an Irish island, draws you in with his musical talent and everyday storytelling…One of the things I loved about this book is that every single character is so well-written. Even those just mentioned in passing are summed up with such precision, sometimes in a single sentence, that you feel as though you know them.”
TUNNEL OF MIRRORS
Rachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World family in New York’s Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences.
Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler and cliff climber Ciaran McMurrough is raised in pastoral innocence on Rathlin off the coast of Ulster. His upbringing in a tight-knit, isolated community leaves him unprepared for the subtle political passions following the Irish Civil War. Outcasts — one by choice, one by chance — Rachel and Ciaran meet on the docks of lower Manhattan in 1928. Drawn to each other in this lyrical story, must they repeat a doomed cycle as eternal lovers?
Tunnel of Mirrors by Ferne Arfin is available to purchase in hardback, paperback and ebook from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
