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Snap

By: Belinda Bauer
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
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Summary

Winner of the Specsavers Crime & Thriller Book of the Year 2018.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

On a stifling summer's day, 11-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 said. 'I won't be long.' But she never comes back.

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'.

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. But the truth can be a dangerous thing....

©2018 Belinda Bauer (P)2018 Isis Publishing Ltd

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Belinda's words sound as well as they read

Andrew Wincott brings Belinda Bauer's book alive with an under played dramatic narration of this wonderful story.
Set mostly in the West Country the voices fit all the characters so well. I love the delivery that allows words resonate and the humour is so well written that you'll end up laughing out loud.

This is a terrific story about a family let down by the police and social services.

There are few writers that make the process of enjoying a book so much fun.
Belinda Bauer is one such author who does not seem to put a word out of place and in the writing she weaves into her novels she creates a reality that you enjoy and become absorbed within.
Since her impressive debut in Blacklands she has captured the voice of young children with an accomplished ease. Her characters seem ready formed on the page, in a turn of phrase, or an embarrassing situation. She writes about the darkest thoughts and actions yet however chilling these events leave you, the author’s natural humour and comic observations lift the piece.
Snap is a really bleak novel told in its starkest form. But this is not how a Belinda Bauer chooses to write it. She unpicks her ideas and the chronological account and reassembles it in thrilling and compelling read.
So Snap is all about a missing pregnant mother and a married woman terrified by a burglar who threatens her in a very personal way. There are many links with this two narratives and how they hold together and form part of the same unsolved crime is what makes Snap a standout novel.
Young Jack Bright is traumatised by his mother leaving them on a hard shoulder to get help after their car breaks down, only to never be seen again. To have faith in his Father, but who later abandons him and his two sisters, further torments Jack. Thereafter, Jack from the age of 11 becomes the parental figure who does his best to keep the family together and not became separated by social services. His methods and skill is a wonderful story in itself for his ingenuity and resourcefulness but it is also a damming account of children in need and left to their own devices. That Jack is such a troubled young man is quite frightening but that the author creates in him a figure who demands our goodwill and gets us wanting him to thrive is astonishing as he is a thief and vandal.
Into the mix we have a returning character, John Marvel who is a delight and a comedy classic.
This book is so rich and wholesome you will feel you’ve sampled the finest food in the richest banquet. As I said the links are slowly found tying all this together not always in obvious ways but always with sense of delight as the picture become clearer.
When so many books are in your face with strained relationship and psychological behaviours it is great to have a straight forward idea of what happens if someone just snapped. The fallout is awful and this marvellous story never undermines the pain and the loss. It does try to say there will be those who get swept away and those who barely survive but in Jack we might find an antihero who finally gets justice for his Mum and peace of mind.
Bauer explores also those who could do more and why sometimes truths are buried and lost. We have a wonderful range of police officers who at times seem incompetent or failures but in the end their humanity wins through. Marvel is a riot; call me Ralph is a hoot and Bridge Fencing is a gem.
That Marvel’s reluctance to get involved in solving a 12 month hunt for a Breaking and Entering villain locally named Goldilocks is what finally leads him to a murder investigation is wonderfully written.
A book worth waiting for and a real joy to read and listen to.

There is no better writer in my mind than Belinda Bauer and there is therefore only one book to read just now. In the audio form it is a brilliant listen and it brought my own reading experience alive and real again.
Snap has everything the discerning crime thriller fan expects and loads more besides.

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Fantastic read

What an excellent read, loved the added humour, well worth the credit recommend to all 🥇

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I do not understand the high rating of the reviews

I bought this on a 2 for 1 deal, I really should know better by now as I have had so many awful books on these offers.

This book had an interesting synopsis, and a reasonable rating - but having read the first couple of chapters I was already getting annoyed with the characters.
I am now a third of the way through this lacklustre tale, I hate the way a new set of characters is thrown in without any indication of their relevance to the plot, I dislike the family of children, even though I feel sorry for their initial plight - but WOULD a father think 'oh, this is too much to bear - I will leave too, and let his young children fend for themselves.
The 'three years later' woman who is burgled and threatened, but doesn't report it to the police nor does she tell her husband, is just so stupid I could scream.
The Policemen are idiots, the highest ranking chap is rude and as stupid as the rest of them, but he is just downright nasty too.

Overall there is nothing to make the story run smoothly, it is all over the place, and the characters are so awful and idiotic that I couldn't care less what happens to them.

The drama queen narration is not an asset - his dopey female voices are teeth clenchingly bad, overall I am so relieved to have made the decision to desert this tedious book. I woke this morning with a sense of dread and traced the feeling to the realisation that I had to continue with this dire offering.

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Clever title

The story kept me away from other jobs. From the start of the story, I was hooked onto listening more or less constantly. I can't say if the writing is good because I was too engrossed in what was happening. Listening was so good that I felt I was there with characters described in the book and in my judgment, this is characteristic of good writing. I don't know if this book is going to win The Booker Prize 2018, but I will certainly recommend it to my friends. Only at the end I realised how clever the title was.
Reading performance was excellent.

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I got drawn in

After the first few chapters I considered returning this audiobook. The characters are a bit cliched and I found parts of the story predictable and frustrating that “the detectives” couldn’t seem to work out something that was blindingly obvious. I did however get drawn in and finished it within a week. On the whole I’d say it was enjoyable enough.

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Included on Man Booker 2018 Longlist

A surprising inclusion on this years longlist but nevertheless an addictive and engaging thriller read. No great twists and surprises yet character development sound and this was one I really looked forward to picking up again. My first by this author and I will be looking out for more by her.

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Kept me gripped from start to finish

This is the first time I have read/listened to a book by this author. I was not disappointed. I have recommended Snap to family and friends. it's a different take on a murder mystery. I actually had the Audio version. I was glued to it.
it was also a very good narration, kept me wanting more. A definite page turner

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This turned out to be a very peculiar book !

I really don't know quiet what to say about this book other than it was very weird. It is such a strange story with very peculiar narration. I read the synopsis and really thought I would enjoy it as all the elements appeared to be there for a psychological thriller. Sadly the overview does not really reflect the book which is more police procedural than psychological thriller. Despite generally not enjoying this listen I did find some of the narrative amusing and clever. I think what really spoilt it for me was the narrator's style of female voices he really grated on me it was almost comedic at times and I just could not take what he was saying seriously.
Generally disappointed.

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Good story, but the narrator is TOO distracting

The narrator on this audiobook totally ruined it for me. everything is read as a tone of impending doom, which means when there is a significant point in the storyline it was lost. It is like a movie with a chilling score played all the way through. such a shame as I really enjoyed the book it's self.

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Terrible narrator - ruined it for me

The narrator was appalling. Any female characters sounded pathetic, somewhat stupid and simpering. I couldn’t focus on the storyline at all. Such a shame.

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