No phone. No electricity. Snowed in with your family. Welcome to one hell of a Christmas. When the Thorne family gather for the annual Christmas festivities - the arguments, jealousies and long-held enmities that make every family Christmas so special - they think they've only got to endure each other for three days, and then they can return to normality. But then the snows come, along with the ninety-mile-an-hour winds and the plunging temperatures, and the Thornes get cut off with only each other for support, or to blame. It promises to be a Christmas like no other. The "Three Day Rule" is a moving, funny and ultimately optimistic story about a family riddled with secrets who are literally forced into facing up to their problems with each other and themselves. Get to know a family you're never going to forget.