Three Hours
Book description
'If you read only one thriller this year, make it this one: it is that good' DAILY MAIL
'Gripping...impossible to forget. It should be on every reader's bookshelf' MICK HERRON
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In rural Somerset in the middle of a…
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A school siege is a theme that will strike terror into the hearts of teachers and parents everywhere. It’s that planned-for scenario that will ‘never happen here’ (rural Somerset). And then it does. Lupton slows down the narrative so it feels as if events are unfolding at a pace close to real time. Alongside the stress and anxiety, Lupton draws on her characters’ stories to examine the world we live in and aspects of humanity. There are stories of first love and parental despair, we glimpse the mind of a psychopath and the stoic heroism of two Syrian refugee brothers,…
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