Three Hours: The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller

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The conversion factor from hours to seconds is 3600, which means that 1 hour is equal to 3600 seconds: The book give us different POVs from student and teachers in separate locations throughout the school, giving us insight to what they are experiencing. We see the harrowing levels the teachers go to in protecting the children and the students the love, courage and compassion they show under horrific circumstances. Instead, she accepts him as he is – shy, lonely, unconfident. And in Afterwards, a mother, previously infuriated at her daughter for not working hard at school or caring about getting into university, can, under terrible pressure, discover her other, valuable qualities and see her as an independent being. In The Quality of Silence, a mother realises that pleading with her ten-year-old deaf child to “use her mouth voice” is misguided – sign language, her laptop and social media answer her real needs. Lupton herself has been partially deaf since childhood. We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 second is equal to 9.2592592592593E-5 × 3 hours. It's taken me a couple of days since I finished Three Hours to think about this extraordinary story and what I can write in my review.

But as a thriller it is as said tense, nail bitingly so and the sense of mixed claustrophobia with terror that the hostages feel is very real and very raw and powerfully described

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The school is a campus of multiple buildings located in woodlands on the Somerset coast and includes a junior school, a senior school, pottery building and a theatre. It has continued to grow from the 1920s adding new to old and now provides education to 14 years of student needs. Several teachers and students occupy each of the buildings and their stories are told with compelling fascination when threat and fear hang over their every move. The novel explores how different people react, some stepping forward in moments of courage and those that don’t. A secular school in the English countryside is targeted by masked gunmen who shot the Headmaster and threaten the children. The book covers a three hour span during which the children barricade themselves inside the school and police is trying to negotiate with the gunmen to prevent any more shots being fired. A school is under a siege and the headmaster has been shot. The story is being told from the point of view of everyone involved – the students, the teachers, the worried parents, the investigators, even the bad guys… Different people are hiding in different places in the school, all hoping this is just a dream.

The sense of concealed menace hangs like a dense fog over the school never knowing if the killer is going to step out of the mist and shoot someone. The staff try to occupy the children without conveying fear but their anxiety is palpable. Worse still there’s more than one gunman! Over three hours from 9:15 am to 12:15 pm the lives of the school’s staff, pupils and parents will change forever. Being physically active every day is important for the healthy growth and development of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that three hours is approximately one hundred eighty minutes: You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.

I read this at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, I didn't write my review right away and have no idea what happened to my notes.

It's a brave and touchy topic to write about, especially considering the stories parallels to many events that have truly happened. The Columbine High School shootings come to mind, which adds an urgency to the narrative. Yes, it's fiction, but you keep reminding yourself that this could be happening for real. Because it has happened before. An explosion is heard from the woods behind the school, from there unravel a series of events including gunshots and further explosions. Cliff Heights School – located in rural Somerset. Progressive, liberal, co-ed, for children aged 4-18.The story is just horrifying (a school under siege with children of all ages inside) but the character's in this book get stronger and you fall a little in love with them, you also feel like you're there on the sidelines cheering for them to make it. So says one character in Rosamund Lupton’s Three Hours, an incredibly powerful, heart breaking and undeniably brilliant novel, the thing is you know, I believe that’s true. If you read this you’ll believe it too.