Tower and Town, September 2021

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The Big Town Read: Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

We have held a Big Town Read since 2014 where we look forward to many of the local book clubs reading and discussing the book before coming to the event in their groups to meet the author and take their questions and discussions further.

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton is this year’s chosen book in which the reader is propelled into a nail-biting three hours during which teachers and students in a rural Somerset school are held hostage by two unidentified gunmen.

There are a multitude of other stories within this drama – of Rafi and his younger brother who have fled from Syria, a wounded headmaster being tended by one of his students, Hannah, both trapped in the library, a teacher with her group of seven year olds stuck in the pottery shed, the families waiting for news in a nearby leisure centre and the myriad of police trying to resolve the situation.

‘All have to stand up to evil and save the people they love’

This event can be seen in the Town Hall or online at 4.00 pm on Sunday 3 October.

Virginia Reekie