The extraordinary top ten Sunday Times bestseller about a school under siege
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 pregnant 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.
About the Authors
Rosamund Lupton Rosamund Lupton is the author of Sister, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and a bestseller in Europe. Published in the UK by Little, Brown Book Group, Sister has been translated into over thirty languages and has international sales of over 1.5 million copies.
It was the fastest-selling debut of 2010 by a British author, a BBC Radio 4, Book at Bedtime and was winner of the Richard and Judy Best Debut Novel of 2011 award and the Strand Magazine Critics First Novel Award. Film rights of Sister are currently under option with Studio Canal, to produce with Kevin McCormick of Langley St Pictures.
Emily Blunt is attached to star and the script is in development. Lupton's critically acclaimed second novel Afterwards also went straight into the Sunday Times bestseller lists and was the No. 2 Sunday Times fiction bestseller of 2011, with UK sales alone of more than 200,000 copies. The Quality of Silence is her third novel.
Industry Reviews
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
