A Narrow Door
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4.0 • 23 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
Your favourite authors have been gripped by this electric psychological thriller!
'A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES
'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS
'A psychological thriller you can't put down and an antiheroine you won't forget' HARLAN COBEN
'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable - past secrets and present discoveries entangle in an intricately crafted conclusion' RUTH WARE
'Engrossing, cunning, sharp, sinister . . . kept me enthralled till the final pages' CHRIS WHITAKER
'A clever chess game of repressed fears, power struggles, secrets and lies' LUCY ATKINS
'A complex, chilling mystery full of shifting truths and dark corners where the unburied past lies in wait' TAMMY COHEN
'A dark and richly enjoyable novel that already feels like a classic' ELLY GRIFFITHS
'Irresistibly readable, dark and brilliant with a masterful emotional punch' CATRIONA WARD
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Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all...
You can't keep a good woman down.
Available to pre-order now!
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Praise for Joanne Harris's other books set in the St Oswald's world - which all read as standalone thrillers:
'A masterpiece of misdirection' Val McDermid
'Delivers an almighty twist . . . brilliantly atmospheric ' The Times
'Crime novel or literary novel? Categories really don't matter; readers will find themselves comprehensively gripped' Independent
'[A] gripping psychological thriller . . . Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists' Daily Express
'Marvellously mischievous' Good Housekeeping
'A classic whodunnit with the characters carefully crafted and the tension at a knife edge' Sunday Express
'[A] delicious black comedy' Daily Mail
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 2006, Rebecca Buckfast, the protagonist of Harris's enthralling third thriller set at St. Oswald's (after 2016's Different Class), becomes the first female head in the Yorkshire school's 500-year history. Before her appointment, St. Oswald's was a bastion of male entitlement. Under Rebecca's reign, girls have been admitted and change is in the air. 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. They tell Straitley, who takes the matter to Rebecca, but he senses that she already knows about the body. With Scheherazade-like skill, she tells Straitley her tale, teasing out the story over the coming weeks. 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. Harris keeps the suspense high all the way to the exhilarating ending. This spectacular feat of storytelling will seduce the reader from page one.
Customer Reviews
Totally Disappointing
I could only stick with this, just past page 120 and I’m a fan of Joanne Harris! What has happened to her writing? Where once there were beguiling layered stories with flesh and blood characters - now, generic and implausible. I can’t even refer to ‘characters’ because there aren’t any. Phoning it in doesn’t even cover it.