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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Three Hours Late
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'Once, so very long ago, she had watched him like this when he came to pick her up from a date...Her stomach fluttered and burned with infatuation and desire. She would watch him walk up the path and think, 'This must be love.'

'But that was so very long ago. Now Liz is wary and afraid. She has made a terrible mistake and it cannot be undone.

'Alex believes that today will be the day she comes back to him. Today will be the day his wife and young son finally come home. Today they will be a family again.

'But Liz knows that some things can never be mended. Some marriages are too broken. Some people are too damaged. Now the most important thing in her life is her son, Luke, and she will do anything in her power to protect him.

'So when Alex is a few minutes late bringing Luke back Liz begins to worry and when he is an hour late her concern grows and when he is later still she can feel her whole life changing because: what if Alex is not just late?

'The terrible secrets of a marriage, the love that can turn to desperation, the refuge and heartbreak of being a parent, the fragile threads that cradle a family...Three Hours Late is a gripping and deeply emotional novel of almost unbearable suspense from a writer of great insight and empathy. ' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2013 .
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      Extent: 311p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st June 2013
      ISBN: 1743313152, 9781743313152
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Atlantic Books ,
      2017 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 January 2017
      ISBN: 9781925576078

Works about this Work

[Untitled] Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 6 July 2013; (p. 28)

— Review of Just_A_Girl Kirsten Krauth , 2013 single work novel ; Three Hours Late Nicole Trope , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Joanne Shiells , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Three Hours Late Nicole Trope , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Joanne Shiells , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Three Hours Late Nicole Trope , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 6 July 2013; (p. 28)

— Review of Just_A_Girl Kirsten Krauth , 2013 single work novel ; Three Hours Late Nicole Trope , 2013 single work novel
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