'Harris keeps the suspense high all the way to the exhilarating ending.

Readers will learn the dead person's identity, but the novel's most shocking revelations have to do with the loss of one woman's agency and the means, however terrible, even monstrous, through which she can reclaim it.'-Sarah Weinman 'New York Times Book Review' Oswald's depths - namely, the literal unearthing of a long-buried body. To the chagrin of the elderly Latin master Roy Straitley, Rebecca Buckfast's arrival not only portends change, it leads to the excavation of secrets from St. Oswald's, long a boys-only domain, is dragged into the current century with the appointment of its first headmistress in its 500-year-old existence. The icy rage and ruthless revenge is turned up even higher in A Narrow Door, in which St. Oswald's embodied the spirit of a fierce chess match. 'Joanne Harris's previous novels set at the tweedy British boarding school St. After all, you can't keep a good woman down. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. Fierce.'-Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding 'A psychological thriller you can't put down and an antiheroine you won't forget.'-Harlan Coben *** Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. 'A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems.'-Alex Michaelides, bestselling author of The Silent Patient 'Exhilarating. Book Synopsis An electrifying tale of psychological suspense and revenge at an elite grammar school where secrets run deep.

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