Snap: The astonishing Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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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! Bauer's judgement of tone is perfect throughout a captivating whodunnit that's often hilarious . . . beady-eyed yet tender, it resembles a collaboration between Agatha Christie and Muriel Spark.' Belinda Bauer is a famous writer of crime novels, who was born in 1962 in England. She also spend some of her childhood years in Africa. Finally Belinda settled in Cardiff and lived also in Wales more time than anywhere else in her life. She is also attended Welsh Academy as a member. Bauer didn’t have a very easy life. In fact, she had to experience a sudden dive from a wealthy home, where she lived with her parents in South Africa to a poverty west country house in Britain, when she returned there with her mother. But she actually had some good opportunities there. She was trained as a journalist at Cardiff University and worked in Cardiff as a journalist for 7 years, which was incredibly valuable for her. Right from when she was a trainee, her copy was going straight to the news desk of every national paper. She actually loved Cardiff and stayed in the city for some years after she completed her course. Belinda Bauer started her career by writing as a journalist before she won a screenwriting competition run by Bafta in 1990s for her first screenplay.

By the half-light of the hallway Catherine stood, naked, and stared down at her huge tummy – shiny and stretched to accommodate the baby they were looking forward to with such pleasure. It was a view she’d enjoyed many, many times over the past months – marvelling at her tightening swell and disappearing feet. She always felt joy and wonder. But tonight the joy didn’t come. And neither did the wonder.Snap by Belinda Bauer is a captivating, emotional and gripping read about tragic loss, grief, snap decisions and their devastating, longterm impact. A rather dark crime novel with some memorable characters and a burglar who likes to nap.....BUT someone will Snap! We meet pregnant Catherine who’s life was threatened while her husband Adam was away. Of course she doesn’t tell Adam! ( crazy)... This has a straightforward story line, good sound characters, and a couple of surprising reveals along the way. The author and publisher apparently felt confident enough not to resort to the ubiquitous blurb "With a twist you'll never see coming!" or some variation on the theme. Thank you for that. Man Booker prize 2018 longlist – in pictures". The Guardian. 23 July 2018. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 July 2018.

It takes a while for the different threads in this book to come together, to weave their tapestry into the bigger picture, but it is a picture worth waiting for. This is a novel of loss, of grief, of getting by by whatever means possible, of betrayal. But there is also hope and loyalty, and unexpected kindnesses. And humor in the form of Marvel, Reynolds and Rice. Eileen’s almost complete absence from the novel accentuates her loss and her children’s need to a degree that makes their subsequent moods and attitudes completely understandable, and I loved the way the story gradually came together. This article is about the writer Belinda Bauer. For the actress Belinda Bauer, see Belinda Bauer (actress). A below average thriller with a flimsy plot, mediocre writing and cliché characters. How this book ended up on the Man Booker Longlist is beyond me. yet... we don’t care: the storytelling - the wonderful characters with all they are grappling with, make us happy campers readers!!!

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It’s hard to understand how the Man Booker judges could have deemed Snap to be of sufficient depth or imagination to merit its inclusion. Finders Keepers, Bauer's third novel, was set in the fictional location of Shipcott, also in Exmoor. The book was published in Britain on 5 January 2012, and in the United States on 28 February 2012. Despite being a crime novel, it is a charming book that encompasses themes of compassion, friendship, love and standing up for what you believe is right.'