Snap

Summary: The Sunday Times bestseller, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row, "The best crime novel I've read in a very long time." - Val McDermid. 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 forever. 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. Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think, and it touches your heart. I loved it! - Sarah Pin.