Three Hours: The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller

Rosamund Lupton

£9.99

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3 hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is 180 minutes to discover who you will die for and what men will kill for. In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Told from the point of view of the people at the heart of it, from the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah in love for the first time, to the parents gathering desperate for news, to the 16 year old Syrian refugee trying to rescue his little brother, to the police psychologist who must identify the gunmen, to the students taking refuge in the school theatre, all experience the most intense hours of their lives, where evil and terror are met by courage, love and redemption.

ISBN: 9780241374511 Category:

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‘If you read only one thriller this year; make it this one’ Daily Mail
Gob-smackingly, heart-stoppingly, breath-holdingly brilliant‘ Ruth Jones

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THREE HOURS TO SAVE THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE

In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege.

Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather desperate for news.

In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save the people they love.

A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR
A BEST BOOK OF 2020 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES, GUARDIAN, MAIL, MIRROR, LITERARY REVIEW, STYLIST, RED AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
A TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
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Brilliant‘ Lee Child, Better off Dead

‘A brave, timely and intricately crafted work’ Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

Superb‘ Kate Mosse, The City of Tears

‘It’s beautifully, elegantly written, SO gripping, intelligent, timely, affecting and moving’
Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel

‘A brilliant literary thriller… moving, masterly’
Sunday Times

Kept us on the edge of our seats from start to finish’ Independent

‘A novel that you live rather than merely read’ Daily Telegraph

‘Amazing’ Davina McCall, Menopausing

‘An electrifying, pulse-racing novel’ Red

‘Wow! This is a stunner of a book, staggeringly good’ Jane Fallon, Just Got Real

‘An emotionally devastating and beautifully observed literary thriller’
Observer

‘Astonishing, powerful, terrifying, heartbreaking’ Emma Flint, Little Deaths

‘Intersperses scenes of breath-sucking tension with stirring meditations on human nature’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 19.9 × 13 × 2.1 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

307

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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