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What a book! What a pageturner, just loved it.
Thoroughly good, 4 stars plus! Great crime read, loved by many here as I see it. Great characters all round and highly entertaining, keeps you on the end of your seat.
I think it is an unusual book to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as I understand it, but I like it! So... recommended!

On a stifling summer's day, 11-year old Jack and his two little sisters sit in their broken-down car along the highway, waiting for their mum 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 changes for ever. 3 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 as their dad has left them, and - quite sudden - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. And then the police gets involved as well....