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The Last Minute - Eleanor Updale
The Last Minute
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9.21am: business as usual on a high street in England.9.22am: the explosions are heard for miles around, and in the early confusion there is talk of a gas leak, a plane crash, and even terrorism . . .The people of Heathwick had been preparing for Christmas unaware that many would die, and the... show more
9.21am: business as usual on a high street in England.9.22am: the explosions are heard for miles around, and in the early confusion there is talk of a gas leak, a plane crash, and even terrorism . . .The people of Heathwick had been preparing for Christmas unaware that many would die, and the rest would be transformed for ever. Travel with them, second-by-second, through the hopes, fears, love, worries, gossip, cruelty, kindness and trivia that dominated their final minute before tragedy struck. And in the everyday story of an ordinary street, look for clues to what happened, and why.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00A4B99IO
Publisher: RHCP Digital
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult
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DubaiReader
DubaiReader rated it
3.0 Some of these people only have a minute left to live.
The Last Minute takes place in Heathwick town centre, before an explosion rips the place apart, killing 65. Each second is a gradual build-up, adding to the tension of the final event. What will be the cause of the devastation and who will be its victims? Needless to say, with a death-toll of 65, ...
Feelingfictional
Feelingfictional rated it
I absolutely loved the way The Last Minute is written, it was so completely different to anything I've ever read before and I found it practically impossible to put the book down. It reminded me of the TV series 24 except instead of each episode covering an hour long time period each chapter of the ...
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