Snap: Belinda Bauer

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 . . .