When a man jumps in front of a train on the London Underground, two lives are thrown into chaos. Amy, a maths graduate, a session singer and a waitress, was lost even before her father died. She starts to see how much of her life has been defined by her mother’s departure ten years earlier.

At the same time, the train driver, Jake, finds his past shaken up. The death the daughter he lost when he was only seventeen comes back to haunt him. He tries to hide in his paintings while his relationships crumble around him.

When Jake and Amy are both drawn from South London to Mexico City, both fleeing their own downward spirals and loosening grips on reality, their encounter begins to seem inevitable.

Into the Tunnel was longlisted for the 2020 Mslexia First Novel Competition.