The Hour I First Believed: A Novel [Paperback]

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.

Lamb . . . has delivered a tour de force, his best yet. AA page-turner. . . . Lamb remains a storyteller at the top of his game.Too compelling to put down . . . a richly textured story . . . moving, funny, and completely unpredictable.Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner.Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans hearts sing.Wally Lamb is a remarkable talent.Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters.A soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the titleLamb does an extraordinary job narrating some of the most terrifying tragedies of the past 10 years....an epic journey. Grade: A.When you put Lambs newest novel down, it will be reluctantly. Its that good.