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 . . .