The extraordinary, pulse-racing new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sister.
Rosamund Lupton is the author of Sister, a BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime", a Sunday Times and New York Timesbestseller, winner of the Strand Magazine critics award and the Richard and Judy Bookclub Readers' Choice Award. Her next two books Afterwards and The Quality of Silence (also a Richard and Judy pick) were Sunday Timesbestsellers. Her books have been published in over thirty languages.
Three Hours is both a gripping thriller and a beautiful
meditation on the nature of family, friendship, courage and
unintended - lethal - consequences. Superb.
Wow! This is a stunner of a book. Staggeringly good -- Jane
Fallon
ASTONISHING. Powerful, terrifying, heartbreaking
It's beautifully, elegantly written, SO gripping, intelligent,
timely, affecting and moving -- Marian Keyes
There's no one else writing quite like Rosamund Lupton in fiction
today - the way she combines high tension with a compassionate and
humane take on the world is unique. Three Hours is
exceptional - at turns heart-breaking, warm, terrifying,
perceptive and grippingly page turning -- Kate Hamer
Three Hours is Rosamund Lupton's best book yet, and that is
high praise. A monster story for our fractious historical moment --
the age of the internet and of Columbine, of terror and mass
migration -- when the monsters often look an awful lot like our own
children. Chilling, suspenseful, humane, and brave --
William Landay
An incredible, unbelievably powerful book... I forgot how to
breathe as it explored what it means to be human - for better or
for worse. It's taut, it's tight, it's appalling, it's uplifting,
it's extraordinary. Simply stunning -- Dinah Jefferies
This is an incredible novel: a heady combination of elegant
writing, nuanced characterisation, deep emotion and heart-stopping
tension. I was torn, all the way through, between wanting to slow
down in order to relish the detail, and wanting to speed up in
order to find out what was going to happen' -- Elizabeth Brooks
I read Three Hours in two days, in awe. It's
breathtaking. A modern rumination on the issues that divide
21st century life, a celebration of refugees, of mental health, of
love and hope and bravery. I loved it more than I can say' --
Gillian McAllister
Three Hours is about hate crime, but what rings out from its
pages - what is likely to stay with you long after you've read that
magnificent last line - is love. I wanted to read Three
Hours slowly to savour every beautiful word, yet it is so
compelling that I couldn't put it down. This one is destined for
the best-sellers list, I reckon, and rightly so. It is
phenomenal -- Fiona Mitchell
Beautifully written, emotionally note-perfect and nail-bitingly
tense. It's BRILLIANT -- Tammy Cohen
I finished Three Hoursin the wee small hours of this
morning. It's mind blowing. I'm still feeling jittery. It's so
fast-paced and credible that at times I felt like I was watching
rolling news coverage of a real incident where I knew the victims.
I had that same pulse-racing, queasy feeling - the same inability
to look away. It's a horrifying story but told with such compassion
and humanity. A large cast of characters and yet you feel genuinely
emotionally engaged with each one... Amazing -- Francesca
Jakobi
Three Hoursis a brilliant novel - moving, relevant and
honest. Rosamund Lupton takes us through the story of a siege in an
English school, building on the tension and our emotions as the
story speeds to its conclusion. She handles difficult subjects with
sensitivity and intelligence, focusing on the heroism of the
individual. An exceptional and heartbreaking read -- Jenny
Quintana
Lupton tells her story with searing beauty and unbearable tension.
Exquisite. Compassionate. Painful. Fantastic. A work of powerful
imagination that wears its intelligence lightly. Absolutely
terrifying and nail-biting. Don't read this if you want to be able
to put it down. -- Kate London
Three Hours has a voice all of its own. Character and plot
leap out at you from the first line. Rosamund Lupton makes you race
through the pages with her irresistible storytelling. Impossible to
stop until you reach the poignant end! -- Jane Corry
I've just finished reading this. Exceptional - so well planned and
written. I'm also in awe of Rosamund Lupton -- Sarah Edghill
Like a breath of icy air. . . Not since Smilla's Feeling for
Snow have I shivered like this. -- Emma Donoghue on 'The
Quality of Silence'
Like Kate Atkinson, Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell * New York
Times on 'Sister' *
Devastatingly good, and announces the arrival of a truly original
talent * Daily Mail on 'Sister' *
Three Hours is one of the most exhilarating reading experiences
I've ever had. Rosamund Lupton takes a dark, painful subject
and turns it into a novel full of hope and compassion. An
amazing achievement. -- Emma Healey, bestselling author of
'Elizabeth is Missing' and 'Whistle in the Dark'
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