Injury Time is a novel by English author Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English author from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her psychological novels, often set amongst the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker...

 and first published in 1977 by Duckworth

Gerald Duckworth

Gerald de l'Etang Duckworth was a British publisher.-Background and early life:Duckworth was a son of Herbert Duckworth, a London barrister, by his wife Julia Jackson. His middle name, de l'Etang, was the surname of one of his mother's ancestors, Antoine de l'Etang, a page to Queen Marie Antoinette...

. It won the 1977 Whitbread Book of the Year Award

1977 Whitbread Awards

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Plot introduction

Edward is married to Helen but having an affair with Binny, Tonight the lovers are holding their first dinner party, although Edward has promised his wife that he will not be home late. Unfortunately things don't go to plan and the dinner party is gate-crashed by desperate bank-robbers wielding sawn-off shotguns and seeking hostages...