A Narrow Door, Joanne Harris
A Narrow Door, Joanne Harris
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A Narrow Door

Author: Joanne Harris

Narrator: Alex Kingston, Steven Pacey

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2022


Synopsis

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. Addictive. 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. 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.

About Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (MBE) was born in Barnsley in 1964 to a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat. Her books are now published in over fifty countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science. She works from a shed in her garden and lives with her husband and daughter in a little wood in Yorkshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

Rebecca Buckfast née Price is the first woman headteacher through the ‘narrow door’ of St Oswalds, Malbry, the institution rocked by murder and scandal. She represents its future just as Roy Straitley, classics teacher of many years, is its past. Becky aims to demonstrate that Roy is wrong about wom......more

Neither narrator is reliable. Mind blowing, I regret reading it at 2 am! I didn't realize it's part of a trilogy until I checked the goodreads page but oh wow, what a read! The feminist agenda were spot on and I love every single bit of it, the layers of Rebecca's story and her past gets unfolded als......more

Goodreads review by Gary

It wasn’t until I was about to read the novel that I realised it was the third book in a series. That said I didn’t feel that it spoilt my enjoyment at all and worked perfectly good as a stand alone novel. Forty year old Rebecca Buckfast has become the first headmistress in the history of St Oswald’s......more