{"id":11238,"date":"2022-03-07T00:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=11238"},"modified":"2022-03-07T00:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:52:04","slug":"february-book-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=11238","title":{"rendered":"February Book Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Snap by Belinda Bauer <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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. \u2018Jack’s in charge<\/em>,\u2019 she said. \u2018I won’t be long.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

But she doesn’t come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever.<\/p>\n

Three years later, mum-to-be Catherine wakes to find a knife beside her bed, and a note that says: I could have killed you. <\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile 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.<\/p>\n

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But the truth can be a dangerous thing … <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A taut, suspenseful new novel from award-winning thriller author Belinda Bauer in which a woman being menaced by a knife-wielding home invader is connected to a string of burglaries in a quaint bedroom community, and the brutal murder that left three children motherless three years before.<\/p>\n

The group scored an average of 7 for this quirky and well written thriller. Overall, it was described as an easy, enjoyable read.<\/p>\n

There were a number of threads which initially some found quite confusing but it was interesting to see how these all came together at the end. Good descriptions of characters and environments in the story although there were also a number of unrealistic situations. A number of the group would recommend it to others to read<\/p>\n

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Snap by Belinda Bauer 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. \u2018Jack’s in charge,\u2019 she said. \u2018I won’t be long.\u2019 But she doesn’t come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever. 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