The last minute
By: Eleanor Updale
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780385616683; 9781849920476
Subjects: Explosions; Fiction
Description: 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 forever. 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.
Table of contents: title: An extraordinary and tense novel telling the last minute before a catastrophic event; title: weaving together the everyday lives of ordinary people, some for whom today is their last