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. Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. 'A dark and richly enjoyable novel that already feels like a classic' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable' RUTH WARE 'A psychological thriller you can't put down' HARLAN COBEN 'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES brilliantly atmospheric ' The Times 'Crime novel or literary novel? Categories really don't matter readers will find themselves comprehensively gripped' Independent ' gripping psychological thriller. 'A masterpiece of misdirection' Val McDermid 'Delivers an almighty twist. 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 ' delicious black comedy' Daily Mail Praise for Joanne Harris's other books set in the St Oswald's world - which all read as standalone thrillers: 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.

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

A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris