'Enthralling. Tense' Daily Mail
'An outdoors version of Emma Donoghue's Room' The Sunday Times
'Gripping. Unputdownable' Sun
'A powerful, unsettling book' Guardian
'Captivating and beautifully written' Daily Express
'Riveting and beautiful, and all too real.' Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
'Tense, shocking, heartbreaking. So good.' C J Tudor, author of THE CHALK MAN
'It tore at every maternal fibre in my body. I couldn't put it down.' Fiona Barton, author of THE CHILD
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Lincoln is a good boy. At the age of four, he is curious, clever and well behaved. He does as his mum says and knows what the rules are.
'The rules are different today. The rules are that we hide and do not let the man with the gun find us.'
When an ordinary day at the zoo turns into a nightmare, Joan finds herself...