

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.īut Rebecca is here to make her mark. 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. 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. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. A Narrow Door is a dark, suspenseful and riviting read. 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. Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. Fierce. "A psychological thriller you can't put down and an antiheroine you won't forget."-Harlan Coben An electrifying tale of psychological suspense and revenge at an elite grammar school where secrets run deep.'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.

Fierce."-Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding "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 An electrifying tale of psychological suspense and revenge at an elite grammar school where secrets run deep.
