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Three Hours
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Three hours to save the people you love.
A Top 10 Sunday Times best seller.
Three 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 an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible.
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. 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.
Critic Reviews
"A brilliant literary thriller...moving, masterly, flawlessly orchestrated." (Sunday Times)
"Three Hours intersperses scenes of breath-sucking tension with stirring meditations on human nature.... The message Lupton's novel delivers is that only love can save us." (Sara Collins, Guardian)
"This could so easily be a story which spotlights evil and terror. Instead, it deftly weaves a message of courage, love and redemption, and Whelan's performance is absolutely electrifying." (Stylist)
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- Wendy S
- 03-04-2020
Disturbing but enthralling
I was captivated by the story, getting right inside the different characters perspectives was a tremendous way to build tension and bring the situation to life.
This would appeal to a wide adult audience although those with young kids may find it distressing.
Well written, easy to listen to and I loved the narrator. Once I started I listened right through to the end in one day!! I would love to hear more from Rosamund Lupton.
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- Dr Rob
- 15-03-2020
Superb!!
Just brilliant!! Great pace, plenty of raw emotion and detail without being overdone. Loved the characters and the suspense!
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- Littlebookworm
- 30-06-2021
Great listen - struggled with the narrator
The book was great but very repetitive - I wonder if it would have felt this way in the written format or if the narrator’s style enhanced this. I found the narrator to sound almost robotic in a highly emotional book and this took away from the suspense.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-09-2021
problematic gendered tropes
I didn't understand the point of this book. it is full of outdated gender tropes. it doesn't offer new ideas or solutions about white supremacy. it's just trauma porn.
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