59 Minutes
A Novel
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
The internationally bestselling author of the “brilliant, gripping must-read” (Glamour) Try Not to Breathe brings suspenseful thrills in this unputdownable novel following three women as they face an incoming nuclear attack.
Nuclear missile threat to South England. 59 minutes until impact. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test.
Carrie is a young mother desperate to reunite with her daughter. Frankie, newly pregnant, faces a romantic vacation that takes a terrifying turn. Then there’s the enigmatic older woman determined to protect her teenage daughter, Bunny, no matter what.
Across South England, these three women must navigate survival amidst chaos when the country receives a nuclear bomb alert. With only 59 minutes before mass destruction, will they make it to their loved ones in time?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
South England plunges into nuclear panic in this unnerving doomsday thriller from Seddon (The Short Straw). When news breaks on a Friday afternoon that a nuclear missile will strike London within the hour, chaos erupts, and armed troops struggle to maintain order. Young advertising exec Carrie Spencer has already hit Waterloo Station, eager to unwind at home with her partner, Emma, and three-year-old daughter, when emergency alerts ping on her fellow passengers' phones. Meanwhile, artist Frankie and her boyfriend Otis receive the same alerts at the Dartmoor cottage they've booked for a romantic getaway—only seconds after Frankie shares the news she's pregnant. Finally, there's the widowed Mrs. Dabb, who grows frantic in her isolated cottage as her teenage daughter fails to arrive home from school. While the minutes tick down, the story lines overlap, and a panicked public succumbs to its worst instincts, unleashing predators like the Devon Militia, who drive around Dartmoor snatching girls and young women at gunpoint. Seddon's gift for cliffhangers takes the tension to unbearable heights, and the strong women characters who lead the action help paper over a plot convenience or two. It's easy to wolf this down in a single sitting.
