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BY BELINDA BAUER

On a stifling summer’s day, eleven-yearold Jack and his two sisters sit in their brokendown 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 forever.

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. .

Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda,

No. 2 Samudradevi Mawatha