After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement threatens to engulf the town.
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EXTRACT: EXT. BILLBOARD ROAD - DAY- Mildred Hayes, a woman in her early fifties, driving along a country road, passes an old billboard, roadside.
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(Faber & Faber, 10 January 2018, e-book, 112 pages, bought from AmazonKindle, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book that fulfils your favourite prompt from a past challenge, less than 150 pages)
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I bought Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri when it was on sale for 99p because I loved the movie. I didn't realise it was a screenplay for the film. I would have liked a novel better but loved reading this regardless. I've read screenplays before, so the format was fine for me. I kept seeing the movie in my head as I read which amused me. This is a powerful, compelling story. It made me want to see the movie again.
