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Snap

ISBN 
9781784160852
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R245.00
Published 
January 2019
About the book: 
SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS...
 
On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long.
But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever.
 
Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother...
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About the Author
Belinda Bauer  grew up in England and South Africa and now lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother.
 
For her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the  CWA Gold Dagger  for  Crime Novel of the Year.  She went on to win the  CWA Dagger  in the Library for her body of work. Her fourth novel,  Rubbernecker,  was voted Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Her eighth novel,  Snap,  was a  Sunday Times bestseller.  It was longlisted for the  Man Booker prize  and voted  Crime & Thriller Book of the Year  at the  Specsavers National Book Awards. 
 
Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages.

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