Snap Author Surname:Bauer in a locked room

in a locked room

waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them

whose grief at the loss of his wife has brought him to the point of destruction

he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades

moving and deeply humane

Snap Author Surname:Bauer in a locked roomOn 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 doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever. 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