Injury Time (novel)

Injury Time is a novel by English author Beryl Bainbridge and first published in 1977 by Duckworth. It won the 1977 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

Plot introduction
Edward is married to Helen but has 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 as planned, and the dinner party is gate-crashed by desperate bank-robbers wielding sawn-off shotguns and seeking hostages.