The Blue Hour

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The powerful new thriller from the No.1 bestselling author, Paula Hawkins 'Paula Hawkins is a genius' LISA JEWELL When a small bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is revealed to be human, three people become intimately connected by the secrets and lies that put it there. Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the mainland for just a few hours each day, and home to only one inhabitant, The Blue Hour asks questions of ambition, power, art and perception. 'A new Paula Hawkins novel is always a cause for celebration. Her books have all the pleasing twists of the noir genre while at the same time having something to say that feels real and complex and true' LOUISE DOUGHTY

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Beautifully written, intriguing and atmospheric, The Blue Hour cuts to the heart of the artists visceral process, and the chillingly fine line between love and hate. It is a real page-turner * BELINDA BAUER *
What an addictive, exhilarating book, so beautifully composed and brilliantly conceived. And what a heartstopping, haunting ending. Paula is a true master of her art. * DONAL RYAN *
Paula Hawkins has more in common with Patricia Highsmith than just her initials. She combines dark, unsettling plots with psychologically damaged characters, to create novels that are as compulsive as they are complex. The Blue Hour is her finest work yet, a literary thriller set in the abstract world of art. * JOHN BOYNE *
The Blue Hour swept me along on a tide as unforgiving and irresistible as the one around the island of Eris. * VAL MCDERMID *
The best Paula Hawkins yet - by a tense and haunting mile. * LEE CHILD *

Author Bio

PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt. Paula's thrillers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning were also instant No.1 bestsellers.