Name: The hour I first believed
Rating: 3.785714285714286 (28 reviews)
ISBN: 9780060393496

Wally Lamb

a novel

The hour I first believed

The Hour I First Believed

Peggy Walker

Wow. So much more than I was expecting!

When I started reading the book, I was intrigued because it seemed to be a novel about Columbine and it's aftermath. I was so surprised as those descriptions were drawing to a close, that I was only 30% finished. The journey through the past with the use of letters and diaries was done seamlessly. The book was filled with strong women, where most of the men had weaknesses. Some of the characters were fully realized and vivid, where others just seemed like clutter in the story. Still, a fascinating and satisfying read. Highly recommended.

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Jennifer Dieter

I feel that he could have written this book in 300 pages and had a really solid novel. Instead it takes all sorts of unnecessary twists and turns, and I ultimately just felt emotionally exhausted and sad at the end. Started out to be a promising novel that I was excited to read and ended a novel that was hard to pick up and just finish.

Deborah Baker

Wally Lamb is one of my favorite authors. Well written, dramatic, interesting. The story holds you.

When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. When Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.

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From the author of the international number one bestseller 'I Know This Much is True' comes a novel which explores the consequence of violent events, and the chaos that ensues, for human lives blown irrevocably of course.

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