Now Im in charge, the gates are my gates. Agent: Michael Carlisle, InkWell Management. A gripping whodunit from the bestselling author of the Chocolat series, A Narrow Door sees St Oswalds Grammar School gain its first-ever female head teacher who’s determined not to let anything stand in her way not even a body. This spectacular feat of storytelling will seduce the reader from page one. Harris keeps the suspense high all the way to the exhilarating ending. Rebecca’s account of the devastating effects that her older brother’s disappearance had on her family, and events that subsequently took place in 1989 when she was a substitute teacher at his grammar school, alternate with excerpts from Straitley’s 2006 diary. Joanna Harris subtley ramps up the tension by using the unreliability of the memory, the secrets and omissions of both characters which leave you wantimg to fill the gaps in the story, and the slow release of details. With Scheherazade-like skill, she tells Straitley her tale, teasing out the story over the coming weeks. A Narrow Door is a dark, suspenseful and riviting read. They tell Straitley, who takes the matter to Rebecca, but he senses that she already knows about the body. At the building site of the new sports hall, four of Latin master Roy Straitley’s students see what might be a body, partially submerged in a muddy sinkhole. Under Rebecca’s reign, girls have been admitted and change is in the air. Oswald’s was a bastion of male entitlement. Oswald’s (after 2016’s Different Class), becomes the first female head in the Yorkshire school’s 500-year history. In 2006, Rebecca Buckfast, the protagonist of Harris’s enthralling third thriller set at St.
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